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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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...

A STORY ABOUT FEMALE AMBITION, LEARNING WHERE TRUE POWER LIES, AND EXACTLY WHAT IT COSTS. 'Compelling, relatable characters and a brilliant voice' CONN IGGULDEN 'A tale of power-play, political hope and women's inner strength' ELYSE JOHN _ Fulvia is the daughter of a wealthy but unimportant...

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 ...

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.

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.

Caesar is dead. The system he built must now prove it can stand alone — and the first man to govern it isn't a Roman. In Pax Machina, the Ides of March never came. Caesar survived and spent his last years replacing the rule of blood with a republic of merit, examination, and machine. Now he is gone, and the first consul elected under his system is Vercorix, a Gaul who entered Rome with nothing but his intelligence and the right to sit an exam. What follows is not triumph. It is the harder story: what happens when a civilization succeeds. The provinces want schools. Germanic chiefs cross ...

610 AD. The Byzantine Empire is collapsing. Persian armies pour across the eastern frontier. The Balkans are ravaged by barbarian invasions. At the centre of the chaos sits Phocas, a half-mad soldier who has seized the throne and now rules Constantinople through spectacle and arbitrary torture. One province after another declares for Heraclius, the ambitious usurper advancing from Africa. The capital trembles on the brink of destruction. Into this inferno comes Aelric of England—scholar, rake, and reluctant agent of the Papacy. Blackmailed into abandoning a profitable life of lechery and ...

Can an institution outlive its founder? Rome, 14 AD. The most powerful man in the world, Augustus, is dead. While the Senate conspires to divide the spoils of power and the legions await a sign, a figure emerges from the shadows of the Palatine. Not a general, nor a blood heir: Livia Drusilla. Livia is not merely seeking to maintain order; she is executing a vision that two geniuses—Julius Caesar and Augustus—dared not complete. While Caesar dreamed of power based on merit and Augustus masked it behind an aristocratic veil, Livia decides it is time to dismantle the system of blood ...

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 fields of Cannae provide the setting for one of the bloodiest battles in history. But who will triumph? Hannibal and his warrior army, or the mighty legions of Rome. By Ben Kane, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hannibal: Enemy of Rome. Hannibal's campaign to defeat Rome continues as...

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 ...

Rome, 44 BC. Gaius Julius Caesar—Dictator Perpetuo, conqueror of Gaul, master of the known world—walks into the Senate on the Ides of March. He will not walk out. But he will not leave dead, either. When Casca fails the first strike and Mark Antony storms in with the guard, Caesar is left suspended between life and death. During months of convalescence, the most powerful man in the world experiences something he has never known: absolute helplessness. And in that silence, he reads. He thinks. He remembers Brutus’ gaze among the conspirators. He understands that an empire held up only ...

Fully edited July 2025 Stolen gold, a dead priest and a mystery fit for the gods Rome’s treasures are gone and a priest lies dead within the burned-out shell of the Temple of Vulcan. Did he die a hero protecting the riches stored at the temple as everyone says or is there a more sinister reason for his death? Facing financial ruin if he cannot find the missing gold and silver, Secundus makes enemies of Rome’s rich and powerful as he grapples with hostile priests, corrupt patricians and a mystery which seems to hold no clues. From the depths of the fire comes hope as a potential new home...

Cilicia, 117 AD. History dictated the Emperor must die. Trajan refused. Emperor Trajan, Rome's greatest conqueror, suffers a massive stroke. His rivals, led by the calculating Hadrian, wait for his last breath to seize the throne and retreat from the frontiers. But the old soldier opens his eyes with one final, impossible dream: to bypass the Parthian Empire by sea. While Rome descends into a silent war of whispers and poison, Trajan appoints an unthinkable heir: Lusius Quietus, a Berber prince and cavalry commander feared by the Senate. His mission is suicidal: reopen the ancient Pharaohs'...

Praise for Kaarina Parker: 'Compelling, relatable characters and a brilliant voice' CONN IGGULDEN 'A tale of power-play, political hope and women's inner strength' ELYSE JOHN Fulvia is now a wealthy young widow, with more than gold to her name. In the wake of her husband's death, she has...