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THE UNMISSABLE ADVENTURE FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, CONN IGGULDEN 
Can a slave . . . become a master? 
AD 37. The Roman Republic has become a true empire, stretching from Egypt to the seacoast of Gaul. Sixty million people live under its rule. 
A scribe in a noble household on the outskirts of the empire’s greatest city, a young man who has no memory of his past or his family. Where freedom exists for the privileged few, he has only ever known a life of slavery. His name is Cormac. 
When Cormac’s master dies suddenly under suspicious circumstances, he finds himself furnished with documents freeing him from bondage. Surviving somewhere between slave and citizen, he quickly discovers the dangers that come with freedom. The city is a pitiless place for those without allies. 
But the winds of fate are shifting. Cormac’s talents – his treasured ability to read and write – will soon take him from city slums to the mines of Gaul, to the island of Britannia and back to the hills of Rome. 
Slave, scribe, soldier – Cormac will have to play Rome’s most dangerous game if he’s to secure wealth and power. For in this city, with skill, ambition and luck, perhaps such things can be won . . .

Praise for Conn Iggulden's EMPIRE 
 
'A gripping read from the master historical storyteller'

CONN IGGULDEN is one of the most successful authors of historical fiction writing today, with bestselling series on Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan and the Wars of the Roses, as well as two stand-alone novels: Dunstan, set in the red-blooded world of tenth-century England and The Falcon of Sparta, in which Iggulden returns to the Ancient World. Both instalments of his Athenian series, The Gates of Athens and Protector, and his recent Golden Age series, Lion and Empire, are Sunday Times bestsellers. Tyrant and Inferno follow on from the Sunday Times bestselling Nero in Iggulden's most recent series.

Ancient Rome, AD 37. 
 
A scribe in a noble household, Cormac has known only slavery—until the day he’s cast out and declared free. But freedom without food, work, or purpose is its own kind of sentence. 
 
Somewhere between slave and citizen, all that was once orderly, structured and routine is now chaos, and Cormac must learn life anew. 
 
His writing skills have afforded him flickers of opportunity in a world far wealthier than his, but will he resist the pull of the city's underbelly? 
 
Can Cormac fight against all the odds to rise up and make something of his freedom?

Forged in Rome

THE EPIC ADVENTURE FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, CONN IGGULDEN 
 
'Peaky Blinders in Rome!' ***** 
 
'A real page turner that carries you along' ***** 
 
'Exciting. Our hero lives on a knife edge and takes you with him!' ***** 
 
 
POWER IS THE PRIZE. ROME SETS THE PRICE. 
 
AD 46. After years serving with the legion, Cormac -a slave turned soldier living under a stolen name - returns to Rome determined never to be powerless again. 
 
With his closest allies beside him, Cormac sets out to win what Rome once denied him. A home and family of his own, a name no enemy can destroy and a seat among those who hold Rome’s future in their hands. 
 
But every rise creates an enemy. 
 
For generations, Marcus Quinctius’s family has grown rich supplying Rome’s legions. He will not surrender that trade - or the wealth it brings - to an upstart. 
 
As their rivalry spreads from Rome’s crowded streets to the vineyards, warehouses and ports that sustain the capital, loyalties will be tested and blood will be spilled. For the higher Cormac climbs, the more he stands to lose. 
 
Rome rewards ambition. Until ambition becomes a threat. 
 
 
PRAISE FOR CONN IGGULDEN 
 
'Breathtakingly good' Bernard Cornwell 
 
'Deft and robust storytelling that whips through the history with plenty of blood, guts and plot-twists' The Times 
 
'Pacy and propulsive, cracking with energy, violence and stirring speeches, Iggulden chronicles power struggles, political machinations and the bloodthirsty ravages of up-close combat' Daily Mail 
 
'A master of the historical novel' Washington Post

A gripping read from the master historical storyteller

Pacy and propulsive, cracking with energy, violence and stirring speeches, Iggulden chronicles power struggles, political machinations and the bloodthirsty ravages of up-close combat

Deft and robust storytelling, that whips through the history with plenty of blood, guts and plot-twists

With merciless power and back-stabbing violence, this is an enticing trilogy

AD 46. 
Rome rules an empire. 
But in the capital, power is still there for the taking. 
 
After years serving with the legion, Cormac -a slave turned soldier living under a stolen name - returns to Rome determined never to be powerless again. 
 
With his closest allies beside him, Cormac sets out to win what Rome once denied him. A home and family of his own, a name no enemy can destroy and a seat among those who hold Rome’s future in their hands. 
 
But every rise creates an enemy. 
 
For generations, Marcus Quinctius’s family has grown rich supplying Rome’s legions. He will not surrender that trade - or the wealth it brings - to an upstart. 
 
As their rivalry spreads from Rome’s crowded streets to the vineyards, warehouses and ports that sustain the capital, loyalties will be tested and blood will be spilled. For the higher Cormac climbs, the more he stands to lose. 
 
Rome rewards ambition. 
 
Until ambition becomes a threat.

A ROMAN SLAVE HAS FURTHER TO FALL THAN MOST . . . 
 
AD 46. The Roman Republic has become a true empire, stretching from Egypt to the seacoast of Gaul. Sixty million people live under its rule: slaves, citizens, nobleman and emperors alike.

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