The Veiled Assassin by Q V Hunter
The Veiled Assassin is the first in Q. V. Hunter's ground-breaking series, 'The Embers of Empire, ' introducing Roman fiction fans to a little-used setting when the Republic and Imperium periods had become fading memories.The Dominate period ruled by Emperors Constans, Constantius I, Julian the Apostate, and the Valentinian brothers was a world of usurping barbarian generals, competing Christian factions, intrigant eunuchs, overstretched borders, and the rise of the rival 'New Roma' or Constantinople in the East.In this first adventure, The Veiled Assassin pits young Marcus Gregorianus Numidianus, half-Numidian bastard slave-turned-spy, against religious suicide martyrs destroying the stability of Roman African colonial exports vital to a hungry empire. Even if Marcus' mission to find the powerful mastermind behind the mutilating ambushes is a success, will his army master honor an obligation to free the stubborn young volunteer hero?Once trained at the Castra Peregrina, Roma's notorious intelligence headquarters in Rome, Marcus will survive to face Gallo-Roman army rebels, corrupt eunuchs controlling the East, and a pair of Christian emperors inheriting a bankrupt empire in the face of Goths, Alemanni, Saxons, Berbers, Persians, and Franks-all amidst embers of a world blindly smoldering toward its extinction. Migrant surges, religious suicide martyrs, imperialist commodity extraction, spiritual faddism, gender battles, child sex abuse, people-trafficking-even a forerunner of Brexit-it all happened already to the men and women of the second half of the 4th century, now vividly depicted in this exciting espionage action series delighting fans of Bernard Cornwell, Steven Saylor, and Robert Harris.
Q.V. Hunter is the author of twelve novels, including six Embers of Empire stories of espionage in the Roman Empire of the fourth century, the most recent published in February, 2016. Hunter lives in a Jurassien village which was once a lookout point for Roman soldiers posted to Julius Caesar's colony Noviodunum. They were assigned the resettlement and administration of Celtic Helvetic 'barbarians' defeated in the Battle of Bibracte in 58 BC. Hunter is married to a descendant of Alemanni refugees of the Roman Empire and they have three adult children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9782970088905 |
| ISBN 10 | 2970088908 |
| Title | The Veiled Assassin |
| Author | Q V Hunter |
| Series | The Embers Of Empire |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Eyes & Ears Editions |
| Year published | 2013-09-02 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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