Rome's Lost Son (VESPASIAN), by Robert Fabbri
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Rome's Lost Son (VESPASIAN), by Robert Fabbri
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The sixth installment in Robert Fabbri's epic Vespasian series
Rome, AD 51: Vespasian brings Rome's greatest enemy before the Emperor. After eight years of resistance, the British warrior Caratacus has been caught. But even Vespasian's victory cannot remove the newly-made consul from Roman politics: Agrippina, Emperor Claudius's wife, pardons Caratacus. Claudius is a drunken fool and Narcissus and Pallas, his freedmen, are battling for control of his throne. Separately, they decide to send Vespasian East to Armenia to defend Rome's interests. But there is more at stake than protecting a client kingdom. Rumors abound that Agrippina is involved in a plot to destabilise the East. Vespasian must find a way to serve two masters—Narcissus is determined to ruin Agrippina, Pallas to save her. Meanwhile, the East is in turmoil. A new Jewish cult is flourishing and its adherents refuse to swear loyalty to the Emperor. In Armenia, Vespasian is captured. Immured in the oldest city on earth, how can he escape? And is a Rome ruled by a woman who despises Vespasian any safer than a prison cell?
Rome's Lost Son (VESPASIAN), by Robert Fabbri- Amazon Sales Rank: #1042746 in Books
- Brand: Fabbri, Robert
- Published on: 2015-06-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.30" h x 1.40" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 368 pages
Review A stonking read --Classic FM
About the Author Robert Fabbri has worked in film and TV for 25 years. He is an assistant director and has worked on productions such as Billy Elliot, Hellraiser, Hornblower, and Patriot Games. His life-long passion for ancient history inspired him to write the Vespasian series.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Vespasian's adventures By JPS This is volume 6 of Vespasian’s fictionalised adventures. As the author mentions in his historical note, we know virtually nothing about Vespasian for about a decade following his return from Britannia. Rather than assume that he retired to his estates at the end of his two-month period as a consul, Fabbri has chosen to keep him deeply involved and at the centre of the political machinations and struggles for the succession of Emperor Claudius. The other obvious advantage and merit of such a choice is to allow the author to describe and portray Rome’s often tense relations with the Parthian Empire and its rivalry and competition over who would control the strategic highlands of Armenia.This choice is, of course, part of an author license when writing a piece of historical fiction. It makes for a more interesting story and it is also something that Fabbri has done in some of his previous volumes dealing with Vespasian’s earlier years, and done quite successfully. Making this choice does however also mean running a bit of a risk by making the hero a bit too central or having him go through adventures and ordeals which he survives rather miraculously. The main example here is the hero’s “enforced stay” as a hostage of a satellite King who is vassal to the Parthian monarch and his somewhat implausible escape and return to Rome. Also a bit hard to believe, although just about possible, is the somewhat Machiavellian plot to provoke a Parthian-Roman war, although I will not mention anything more with regards to this in order to avoid spoilers.The pieces I happened to prefer where those related to the power struggle surrounding Claudius’ last years. Here again, the author has make a number of choices, one of which being to depict the ageing Emperor as completely inadequate, and a drunkard in addition. Whether he really was so incapable is debatable but, again, this is the author’s choice. It is a rather plausible one given the grievous political mistakes that he made, mistakes that the author clearly show as being tantamount to suicide.Another key feature and quality of this book is the depiction of characters and the description of the behaviours adopted by some of the historical protagonists. Two in particular – the overambitious and power hungry Agrippina (grand-daughter of Germanicus) and the cruel and unpleasant comedian Nero, her “darling” and rather unbalanced son, are particularly lurid. Nero’s reign started auspiciously and the new and young Princeps was rather popular to begin with. There was little, if anything, allowing anyone to predict how and to what extent it would degenerate and Vespasian would have been very unlikely to be in any position to “predict” this, although the outcome of the succession and Britannicus’ (the legitimate heir to Claudius and his son) rather limited future under the new regime was probably more obvious and are very vividly described.There are also a few little glitches, such as the assignment of five cohorts of auxiliary infantry, all of which being eight hundred strong. This number does not correspond to a cohort’s size, not even a double sized one (the theoretical number would be more likely to be 960). Also, there were relatively few double sized auxiliary cohorts across the Empire and I have never heard of five of them being bunched together within the same province.Having mentioned all this, you could start believed that I had mixed views about this book. This would be far from the truth because it is a rather superb and exciting read. For me, it turned out to be one of these books which I was simply unable to put down once I got started. Four strong stars.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. and enjoyed the first three tremendously By David Ellis I have read all the books in this series, and enjoyed the first three tremendously. I felt the fourth book, although readable had been written to meet a deadline, and the fifth book in the series I did not enjoy too much. It was really 2 different stories, with the Druids as the common thread.In this new book, however, Mr. fabbri is back to his very best. A cracking read which I really enjoyed. I now look forward to more books in this series and to Vespasian's continued rise through the social strata of Rome. Students of a Rome will know how far he actually got, so roll on the ultimate promotion!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. This whole series gives a wonderful researched insight into the Western World's development of so ... By Wayne Masters This whole series gives a wonderful researched insight into the Western World's development of so called civilization. It is disheartening to realise that thousands of years of so called development has not changed anything as far as greed and the lust for power and personal advancement is still the same in our leaders as it was ovwer 2000 years ago!The character development over the series has been excellent, but I must admit the escape through the midst of the Parthian Empire stretches the believeability of the story. All in all a great read and I look forward to the next instalment.
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