Review Delightfully entertaining historical fiction, a combination of scholarship and inventiveness that brings the historical figures vividly to life while educating us, gracefully and subtly, about Rome at the height of its powers.-- "Booklist"Iggulden is a grand storyteller.-- "USA Today"If you liked Gladiator, you'll love The Death of Kings.-- "Times (London)"Iggulden excels at describing battle scenes both small-scale and epic.-- "Seattle Times"Julius Caesar takes center stage in this second fast-moving, action-oriented installment in Iggulden's projected four-book retelling of the Roman emperor's saga...Iggulden does a better job in weaving an intricate and compelling tapestry of Roman underling and slave life, with several well-developed minor characters whose craftiness, loyalty, and heroics far overshadow those of their social betters.-- "Publishers Weekly"What a find. A first-time author who writes-wonderfully!The Death of Kings combines the fantasy of Harry Potter with the historical details of John Jakes. Books don't get better than this.-- "Costa Rica Times" Product Description In a sparsely settled region of North Africa, a band of disheveled soldiers turn their eyes toward one man among them: their leader, Julius Caesar. The soldiers are Roman legionaries. And their quarry is a band of pirates who dared to kidnap Julius Caesar for ransom. Now, as Caesar exacts his revenge and builds a legend far from Rome, his friend Marcus Brutus is fighting battles of another sort, rising to power in the wake of the assassination of a dictator. Once, Brutus and Caesar were as close as brothers, devoted to the same ideals and attracted to the same forbidden woman. Now they will be united again by a shock wave from the north, where a gladiator named Spartacus is building an army of seventy thousand slaves—to fight a cataclysmic battle against Rome itself. About the Author Conn Iggulden is the author of three other novels about Julius Caesar: Emperor: The Death of Kings; Emperor: The Field of Swords; and Emperor: The Gods of War. He is also the author of the Genghis series, and is co-author of the #1 bestseller The Dangerous Book for Boys.