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'Outstanding. An extraordinary recreation of ancient Rome. Miss this at your peril' Ben Kane
More gripping than Game of Thrones and more ruthless than House of Cards - this a stunning new thriller of power, treachery and revenge
*Longlisted for the Historical Writers Association Debut Crown Award*
In a darkened cell, a brutally deposed dictator lies crippled - deprived of his power, his freedom - and his eyes.
On the edge of utter despair, his only companion is the young boy who brings him his meagre rations, a mere child who fears his own shadow. But to one who has held and lost the highest power, one thing alone is crystal clear: even emperors were mere children once.
Ten years later, the new ruler's son watches uneasily over his father's empire. Wherever he looks rebellion is festering, and those closest to him have turned traitor once before.
To this city in crisis comes a hugely wealthy senator from the very edge of the empire, a young and angry ward at his heels. He is witty but inscrutable, generous with his time and money to a leader in desperate need of a friend - and he wears a bandage over his blinded eyes.
The fallen emperor's name is Nero.
But this isn't his story.
'This marvellous debut moves backwards and forwards in time to tell the story of Nero's possible and astonishing tale' Sunday Express
'Barbaree has delivered an extraordinary first novel, impressing with its complex plotting, powerful imagination, strong and authentic characters, and the author's gift for making fiction seem so palpably real. Politics, scheming, corruption, barbarity and betrayal... the best bits of Roman history but with an original new twist!' Lancashire Evening Post
'A blinder! 5 stars' Weekend Sport David Barbaree is a lawyer and a graduate of the Curtis Brown Creative Writing School. He lives in Toronto with his wife and daughter. More gripping than Game of Thrones and more ruthless than House of Cards - this a stunning new thriller of power, treachery and revenge The beginning of a trilogy of novels plotting the rise of Nero's young protegee, who will become the emperor Trajan Immaculately researched, the most stunning thing about the novel is that it could all be true Perfect for readers of Robert Harris' Cicero Trilogy, and also George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series Normally I don't plow through a story like I did with this one, but I kept finding myself wanting to pick it up and find out what happens next. Deposed contained intrigue and brutality that were coupled with the politics of the time period.
More gripping than Game of Thrones and more ruthless than House of Cards - this a stunning new thriller of power, treachery and revenge
*Longlisted for the Historical Writers Association Debut Crown Award*
In a darkened cell, a brutally deposed dictator lies crippled - deprived of his power, his freedom - and his eyes.
On the edge of utter despair, his only companion is the young boy who brings him his meagre rations, a mere child who fears his own shadow. But to one who has held and lost the highest power, one thing alone is crystal clear: even emperors were mere children once.
Ten years later, the new ruler's son watches uneasily over his father's empire. Wherever he looks rebellion is festering, and those closest to him have turned traitor once before.
To this city in crisis comes a hugely wealthy senator from the very edge of the empire, a young and angry ward at his heels. He is witty but inscrutable, generous with his time and money to a leader in desperate need of a friend - and he wears a bandage over his blinded eyes.
The fallen emperor's name is Nero.
But this isn't his story.
'This marvellous debut moves backwards and forwards in time to tell the story of Nero's possible and astonishing tale' Sunday Express
'Barbaree has delivered an extraordinary first novel, impressing with its complex plotting, powerful imagination, strong and authentic characters, and the author's gift for making fiction seem so palpably real. Politics, scheming, corruption, barbarity and betrayal... the best bits of Roman history but with an original new twist!' Lancashire Evening Post
'A blinder! 5 stars' Weekend Sport David Barbaree is a lawyer and a graduate of the Curtis Brown Creative Writing School. He lives in Toronto with his wife and daughter. More gripping than Game of Thrones and more ruthless than House of Cards - this a stunning new thriller of power, treachery and revenge The beginning of a trilogy of novels plotting the rise of Nero's young protegee, who will become the emperor Trajan Immaculately researched, the most stunning thing about the novel is that it could all be true Perfect for readers of Robert Harris' Cicero Trilogy, and also George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series Normally I don't plow through a story like I did with this one, but I kept finding myself wanting to pick it up and find out what happens next. Deposed contained intrigue and brutality that were coupled with the politics of the time period.