Ancient Roman Thrillers

Buried scrolls. Cutthroat rivals. A discovery that rewrites history and...sparks a saga readers never want to end. Darwin Lacroix has one shot to clear his family’s name. For decades, academia mocked the idea that a Roman treasure convoy vanished in the far north—right up until a scroll recovered from beneath Vesuvius hinted otherwise. When a diamond cache surfaces in Iceland, Darwin jumps on the first flight to Reykjavik, determined to finish what his ancestors started. But he’s not the only one chasing the treasure. A ruthless cartel wants it first, and they play for keeps. Forced ...

The Roman legion heads to the British Isles! For fans of Ben Kane, Conn Iggulden, Bernard Cornwell and Simon Scarrow. The natives are fighting back…Britannia, AD 61Centurion Marcus Corvo and his Legion of the Damned, a force of expendables comprised of ex-gladiators, slaves and deserters, have a new commander in Cornelius Arus. But Arus has been manipulated by Emperor Nero’s spymaster, Darius, into working for him, which means the Damned are forced into another mission.

A group of archaeologists investigate a foreboding jungle in search of an ancient road, hoping to find answers to a series of strange disappearances that have taken place in the area.

Ancient secrets. Hidden danger. A lost masterpiece. Darwin Lacroix seeks a tranquil year in Paris guest lecturing at the esteemed École du Louvre, but fate has other plans. Beneath the museum's grandeur lie secrets of a murky past. A clandestine group formed in the Age of Enlightenment secretly controls the collections. During the wars, its unscrupulous curators conspired to squirrel away booty, cutting out the rightful owners. Billions in art: bought and sold for private gain. When French authorities pressure Darwin to expose the group’s dark agenda, he pushes back. But he soon ...

In book two of the Ancient Rome Trilogy that started with Imperium, bestselling Robert Harris again turns Roman history into a gripping thriller as Cicero faces a new power struggle in a world filled with treachery, violence, and vengeance. On the eve of Cicero’s inauguration as consul of Rome...

Cowardice in a legionary carries a heavy punishment: the sentence of decimation—to live or die at the whim of the gods with the unlucky ones clubbed to death by their fellow soldiers. Ursus, the man killed in Quintus's group, lays a heavy charge on the youth, asking him to look after the remaining men and to take care of his family back in Rome.

Rome, 88 BC. One man will break the Republic to save it. When Lucius Cornelius Sulla marches his legions against Rome – the first Roman general ever to turn his army on the city – he needs more than soldiers. He needs a witness. On the slave market in Capua he finds Epicadus, a Greek freedman with a sharp mind and a sharper pen, and charges him with a single task: write everything down. What follows is a decade of war, exile, and absolute power. From the siege of Athens to the blood-soaked plains of Chaeronea, from the killing fields of the Colline Gate to the proscription lists that ...

The Roman Empire was not built with swords and shields. It was built with ledgers, debt, and absolute control. History tells us that Augustus Caesar brought peace to the ancient world. History is a lie written by the men who minted the coins. In The Legs of Iron, Rome, the ancient world is revealed not as a heroic battlefield, but as a ruthless corporate machine. Young Octavian—sickly, brilliant, and entirely devoid of human empathy—realizes that true power does not come from military glory. It comes from controlling the supply chains, weaponizing public debt, and cornering the global ...

Britannia 43AD. The last unconquered stronghold of the Celts and a land of gold and slaves. A dangerous place of men without fear, led by mystical Druid warriors, yet still to face the might of Rome in the unrelenting expansion of the empire. Four Roman legions have assembled in Gaul undertaking final preparations for the invasion of Britannia. Two young men are posted to a training cohort under the sadistic tutorage of a battle scarred veteran, Remus. The training is brutal, but eventually the trainees find themselves involved in their first campaign. The invasion of Britannia.

Rome conquered Dacia. Now it must prove that conquest can become peace. The war is over, but the province is far from secure. Bridges burn. Grain convoys vanish. Settlements that placed their trust in Rome are attacked, while deserters, profiteers, and rebels turn every Roman failure into a weapon. Marcus has been ordered to restore the roads and protect the fragile new province. But victory will require more than marching legions. Working beside Crispus, Marcellus, Rufus, Roman engineers, veteran settlers, and loyal Dacian allies, he must defend an empire built not only with swords, but ...

When the son of his commanding officer is taken prisoner, young centurion Marcus Corvo is tasked with recruiting men from the underbelly of the Empire to rescue him. Corvo sets about scouring the gladiatorial arenas, prisons and slave markets, for men desperate and tough enough to join him on what is likely to be a suicide mission. The quest will take them to the eastern fringes of the Empire where the prisoner is being held in Armenia.

AN EXPEDITION DISAPPEARS WHILE SEARCHING FOR A FORGOTTEN MAYAN CITY. A TREASURE TROVE OF GOLD AND MANUSCRIPTS LIES HIDDEN FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS IN THE RAIN FORESTS OF GUATEMALA. POWERFUL MEN WILL DO ANYTHING FOR A PRICELESS COLLECTION OF MAYAN RELICS. Former Dallas stockbroker and owner of a New York gallery specializing in artifacts and relics, Brian Sadler continues the adventures that began in the award-winning book The Bethlehem Scroll. The wealthy antiquities dealer and amateur archaeologist asks his companion Nicole Farber, a beautiful criminal lawyer from Dallas, to join him in ...

Benevento, AD 619: A Spy’s Game in a Losing Empire Who butchered Tubby Quintus in Rodi’s bed? Not Rodi himself – the Byzantine Empire’s youngest spy in the West was in another bed when it happened. Was it Aripert, the vicious and expendable brother of the Lombard King? Was it Gisulf, the Duke’s pretty but manipulative and no less expendable nephew? Was it the Duchess – half-drunken, half-shifty regent of Benevento in her husband’s unexplained absence? Or Clementian, her cadaverous steward and trusted “adviser”? So long as he can avoid being hanged at the demand of everyone...

50 AD. The invasion is over, and Roman Legions spread throughout the land, a blood red stain on Britannia. Caratacus has fled south to rebuild his army, and warriors flock to his banner. In the north, a disgraced legionary grasps the chance to regain his honour and joins the Exploratores, the elite Roman unit operating behind enemy lines. Soon he is tasked with disrupting the plans of Caratacus, but deep inside he nurtures a deeper mission, the chance to fulfill an oath made six years earlier.

Britannia - AD 60. When her husband dies, Boudicca, queen of the Iceni, expects Rome to enter into a new power-sharing agreement with her people. However, when Rome reneges on the agreement and her daughters are raped by Roman soldiers, Boudicca raises an army to fight back against the occupation. The Britannic tribes rise up and join her in a campaign against their oppressors, and soon her enormous army is sweeping across Britannia in an unstoppable campaign of brutality.

Can an empire survive its own success? Rome no longer obeys the gods, but the gears. After the death of Julius Caesar, the Pax Machina has hardened into an implacable order in which bloodline has been crushed under the weight of technical merit. But the perfect machinery is beginning to show its first cracks. Vercorix, the Gaul who was once an enemy and is now Consul, faces a challenge no legion can defeat: the inertia of a system that has begun to devour its own children. While the Germanic tribes beg to enter the Empire, drawn by the promise of a life "less stupid," a clandestine network ...

In the history we know, when Augustus died the power passed to Tiberius — and Livia passed into posterity as the poisoner pulling strings behind the curtain. In this novel, neither happens. Rome, 14 AD. The most powerful man in the world is dead. While the Senate conspires to divide the spoils and the legions await a sign, a figure emerges from the shadows of the Palatine. Not a general, not a blood heir: Livia Drusilla — and she is not trying to preserve the order, but to execute the vision two geniuses dared not complete. Caesar dreamed of power based on merit; Augustus hid it behind ...

🔥 A Warrior’s Fall. A Slave’s Struggle. A Rebel’s Rise. 🔥 Once, Gaius Aemilius Rufus commanded legions, feasted among Rome’s elite, and dictated the fate of men. But in the blink of an eye, betrayal and misfortune cast him into the darkness—his name erased, his honor stolen, his freedom lost. Now, shackled and sold, Rufus is thrown into a world where only strength and cunning can keep him alive. The gladiatorial arena is his new battlefield, where steel meets flesh and only the strongest walk away. Yet, amid the dust, blood, and roaring crowds, he finds something he never ...

Full edit July 2025 A body in a ditch; a love unrequited; a rift between families: there’s been a murder in Ancient Rome. Immerse yourself in the city of Rome 400 years before the birth of Caesar at a time when there were no rules, no law beyond the voice of the richest man, and at a time when the gods ruled the lives of every citizen of the newly formed Roman Republic! For Secundus, son of the high priest of the temple of Jupiter, his life was a mess. Until he found her - and then it got WORSE!!! Forced into investigating the death of a woman he stumbles into following a night of ...

What if history’s greatest mistake never happened? A.D. 175. The ice on the Danube breaks, and with it, the fate of Rome. In our timeline, Emperor Marcus Aurelius died leaving the Empire to his son Commodus—the cruel tyrant who accelerated Rome’s decline. In this story, Commodus dies first. Marcus Aurelius, the last great philosopher, stands at the edge of the abyss: allow Rome to bleed in a civil war, or attempt the impossible. On his deathbed, he designs a desperate utopia: The Council of the Four Virtues. There will be no single Emperor. There will be four. The Sword: Tiberius ...