Thursday, June 28, 2012

The Imperial Banner

Thursday, 28 June 2012

I wrote about The Siege in glowing terms after I read it last year, so be prepared for a similar paean for The Imperial Banner, the second in the Agent of Rome series by Nick Brown. The year is 272AD, two years after the events of The Siege during the Palmyran rebellion, and the young Cassius Quintius Corbulo is again in Syria as an agent of the Imperial Security Service. The Grain Men (or frumentarii) took the name from their organisation’s original purpose of supplying legions with grain, but went [...]

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