The Kingdom That Rome Forgot

Gavin Chappell

2018

242 páginas

8h 4m

ISBN-13: 9781725603400

THE KINGDOM THAT ROME FORGOTAfter his recent exploits in the Delta and in Alexandria itself, Gaius Flaminius Drusus is feeling restless. The province of Egypt is at peace, indeed so is the whole of Hadrian's empire. But the imperial agent is troubled. After Avidius Pollio turns down another application for transfer to a different legion, the legate gives him a new mission.A notorious merchant named Claudius Mercator is spreading rumours of the presence of the Veil of Tanit in a temple in the mysterious kingdom of the Garamantians, deep in the Libyan Desert. Fearing that the reappearance of this holy relic of the Carthaginians will fuel rebellion in Africa, the legate asks Flaminius to join the new expedition that the merchant is mounting, to learn the truth, and to steal the Veil if possible.It is many days' journey across hundreds of miles of sand and rock, plagued by the desert sun, savage nomad tribes, and sandstorms. Who will Flaminius encounter on his journey? What horrors await in the lost city of Garama? And how in Jove's name will he cope with his latest, most irritating companion?Part Seven in ON HADRIAN'S SECRET SERVICE