Book description
Rome is burning. Only one man can save it.
The Emperor: Nero, Emperor of Rome and all her provinces,
feared by his subjects for his temper and cruelty, is in possession of
an ancient document predicting that Rome will burn.
The Spy: Sebastos Pantera, assassin and spy for the Roman
Legions, is ordered to stop the impending cataclysm. He knows that if
he does not, his life - and those of thousands of others - are in
terrible danger.
The Chariot Boy: Math, a young charioteer, is a pawn drawn
into the deadly game between the Emperor and the Spy, where death
stalks the drivers - on the track and off it.
Manda Scott was a veterinary surgeon and taught at the Universities
of Cambridge and Dublin before taking up writing as a full time
profession. Now founder and Chair of the Historical Writers'
Association, her novels have been shortlisted for the Orange Prize,
nominated for an Edgar Award and translated into over twenty languages.
In addition to the bestselling Boudica series, she is the author of an
acclaimed sequence of Roman novels featuring the Emperor's Spy, Pantera.
For more information on her work, please visit:
www. mcscott. co. uk
