TYRANTS ARENT BORN THEYRE RAISEDTravel to the heart of a Roman dynasty drenched in danger and intrigue in master storyteller Conn Igguldens bold and brilliant return to Rome as he tells the story of Nero last of the the JulioClaudian emperors This pacy bloody and impeccably researched novel will have you on tenterhooks throughout iNewsDeft and robust storytelling that whips through the history with plenty of blood guts and plottwists The TimesEpic and in a class of his own Daily MirrorANCIENT ROME AD 37It begins with a mans hand curled around anothers throatEmperor Tiberius first dispatches a traitorThen his whole familyNext all his friends It is as if he never existedTHIS IS ROMAN JUSTICEInto this fevered forum a child is bornHis mother is Agrippina granddaughter of Emperor Augustus But their imperial blood is no protection The closer you are to the heart of the empire the closer you are to power intrigue and dangerShe faces soldiers senators rivals silvertongued pretenders each vying for position One mistake risks exile incarceration execution Or worst of all the loss of her infant sonFor Agrippina knows that opportunity waits even in your darkest moments Her son is everything She can make this boy shape him into Rome itself the one all must kneel beforeBUT FIRST THEY MUST SURVIVE This then is the story of Neros birth and raising under the watchful and scheming eye of his mother Agrippina a woman every man crossed at his perilPRAISE FOR CONN...
