Résultats pour "James" dans Italie

Three years following the destruction of Legio XXI in Pannonia, former Tribune Tiberius Artorius Castus and retired Centurion Primus Ordo Gavius Lucifer arrive in Rome. Their political fortunes rest in their letters of introduction from the revered general and Governor of Pannonia and Upper Germania, Marcus Ulpius Trajan. As the two former soldiers embark on a life far removed from the Danube frontier, they remain ever mindful of Trajan’s cautionary advice; that Roman politics are deadlier than the most fearsome enemy warrior.

This Amazon number one best seller is based on a never-revealed Vatican cover-up uncovered by Dr. Emile Jean Pin, world renowned former Jesuit priest and Professor of the Gregorian University (the University of the Vatican)–The Calling is a gripping tale of sex, corruption, and intrigue. In a deserted cemetery outside Verona Italy, an old man lay bleeding to death, stabbed by a kitchen butcher knife. His dying words, “That damned priest". The victim’s parish priest, Father Daniele, is accused of murder on circumstantial evidence.

The year is 77 AD. On the frontier of the Roman Empire, a Dacian man named Verus is captured and enslaved during an imperial raid north of the Danube. He is sent to a rock quarry known as The Pit, as one among thousands of fresh slaves needed to mine marble for Emperor Vespasian's new amphitheater. Funded by spoils taken during the Siege of Jerusalem, the Emperor promises it will be the largest gladiatorial arena ever; his personal gift to the people of Rome. Requiring years of herculean labor and millions of cubic feet in stone, Vespasian's son, Titus, worries if his father will live.