Sacramentum - D J G Berkeley

On the edge of the Roman world, a dishonoured General fights, for his friends, his honour, and his very survival. It is the present day, in a world in which Rome never fell. Rome itself is a paragon of towering grandeur, but the brutal outskirts of the Empire are a lawless wasteland. Titus, a General with no army in a world without a war, is a mercenary. Work is easy to come by in the shattered town of Luguvalium, but when his work results a young man's death, Titus begins to question his world. He discovers a truth so shocking that it changes his life, and a conspiracy so dark, that it could bring down the Senate itself. Brilliantly interweaving ancient history into the present. This dark and epic tale combines adventure, courage, honour, ambition, friendship and rivalry to stunning effect. You see the grandeur, inequality and byzantine machinations of the modern day Roman world. You feel every gun-shot. Sacramentum is an outstanding novel of survival and triumph, against impossible odds.