Rome’s Executioner

Name: Rome’s Executioner
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by Robert Fabbri Book 2 in the Vespasian series.

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Vespasian is serving on the Danube frontier when he is drawn into a covert mission connected to the struggle against Sejanus. He must extract a politically valuable prisoner from a fortress before the Roman army captures it, then carry that threat back toward the centre of imperial power. The novel moves from Thracian mountains and river warfare to the dangerous court of Tiberius, where evidence, loyalty and survival are all unstable.

The mission places Vespasian between open warfare and court politics. A prisoner useful against Sejanus may be worth more alive than any captured fortress, yet carrying such evidence toward Rome makes Vespasian vulnerable to everyone whose safety depends on silence. The novel shows Tiberius’s regime as a system in which military loyalty at the frontier cannot protect a man from political danger at the centre.