The Last Roman: Vengeance Av David Donachie

<P><I>The first volume in The Last Roman trilogy, set in the final years of the Roman Empire</I></P><P>Sixth-century Byzantium: Corruption is rife and the empire is in turmoil when Flavius Belisarius is expected to join his father’s cohort to help protect the border of the Eastern Roman Empire.</P><P>Flavius’s father, Decimus, is the governor of Dorostorum city and has two goals: to keep out the Sklaveni barbarians across the Danube and to expose the deep roots of corruption. Seeking to prevent a barbarian raid, Decimus asks the powerful magnate Senuthius Vicinus for help. But when treachery leads to death in the Belisarius family, Decimus’s reputation is damaged.</P><P>With his life changed forever, Flavius swears vengeance on the man who betrayed his father and begins a journey from which there is no way back.</P>