The Last Hour

Name: The Last Hour
Rating: 4.1 (1391 reviews)

by Harry Sidebottom Book 6 in the Warrior of Rome series.

First published 2018

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In AD 265, Ballista reaches Rome carrying evidence of a conspiracy against Emperor Gallienus. He has only a short time to reach the emperor, protect his own family and determine which officials can be trusted before the plotters complete their plan.

Without the security of an army at his back, Ballista must move through the capital using disguise, memory and a handful of uncertain allies. Streets, baths, palaces and monuments become part of a pursuit in which political loyalties can change within hours. The novel compresses the instability of Gallienus’s reign into a single urgent day, showing how imperial power depends on information reaching the right person before an enemy can silence its bearer.