The Man who Never Dies

When the last surviving sibling of the Antikythera Mechanism is stolen, the Roman Empire tumbles into a crisis of unprecedented scope. In the wrong hands, this most powerful instrument of the ancient world could have the political impact of a nuclear bomb under control of barbarian terrorists. And so, in the seemingly peaceful period between the defeat of the Jewish rebel Bar-Kochba and the Parthian War, the rotten core of the Empire is exposed as powers long dismissed struggle for Imperial purple. A sectist astrologer establishes himself in the Germanic north and surrounds himself with murderers and terrorists. The fallen kingdom of Commagene is raising its dangerous head again. And beyond the border to the barbary lands, a criminal mastermind is craving for the stolen object - and for the man who knows how to use it. The House of Iulii, a family from the border toward Germania, is forced to assume a key role in defending the emperors of Rome.