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The Last King
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Pharnaces narrates the rise of his father Mithridates VI, who inherits Pontus as a child and survives court intrigue before seizing personal control of the kingdom. A gifted linguist, strategist and experimenter with poisons, Mithridates expands his influence around the Black Sea and presents himself as the defender of the Greek East against Roman taxation and political domination.
His ambitions lead to three prolonged wars with the Roman Republic and confrontations with commanders including Sulla, Lucullus and Pompey. The novel treats Mithridates as both charismatic liberator and ruthless dynast, following the alliances, massacres, betrayals and family conflicts that sustained his resistance until defeat came from within his own household.
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