The Succession E-Book

Robert Fabbri

• Herausgeber: Corvus
• Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Rome 51 AD. When a secretive astrologer is found murdered, Marcus Salvius Magnus, leader of the South Quirinal Crossroads Brotherhood, suspects that there is more to the brutal slaughter in his district than it seems. As Magnus pieces together the motives behind the plot, it emerges that the astrologer had been drawing up illegal horoscopes for the powerful and wealthy in Rome, including Magnus' patron, Senator Gaius Vespasius Pollo. But knowledge of this kind can be deadly. With Magnus' enemies closing in, danger from both within the Brotherhood's ranks and from rival gang the West Viminal threatens everything he has fought for. Magnus must use every trick known to him to survive, and to try to come out on top... ______________________________________________ Don't miss Robert Fabbri's epic new series Alexander's Legacy

Leseprobe

THE SUCCESSION

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TRIBUNE OF ROME

ROME’S EXECUTIONER

FALSE GOD OF ROME

ROME’S FALLEN EAGLE

MASTERS OF ROME

ROME’S LOST SON

THE FURIES OF ROME

ROME’S SACRED FLAME

ARMINIUS: THE LIMITS OF EMPIRE

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THE CROSSROADS BROTHERHOOD

THE RACING FACTIONS

THE DREAMS OF MORPHEUS

THE ALEXANDRIAN EMBASSY

THE IMPERIAL TRIUMPH

First published in Great Britain in 2018 by Corvus, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd.

Copyright © Robert Fabbri, 2018

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This story is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities, is entirely coincidental.

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E-book ISBN: 978 178 649 3576

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ROME, AUGUST AD 51

‘Marcus Salvius Magnus, it has been a long while since I last begged a favour from you as the patronus of my local brotherhood.’ In her early twenties, the supplicant stood, wringing her hands, before Magnus’ desk in the back room of the tavern that was the headquarters of the South Quirinal Crossroads Brotherhood. Even in the dim light of an oil lamp suspended from the ceiling, and another on the desk, next to a jug of wine and three cups, it was obvious that she had a black eye and a cut to her lower lip.

Smoke from the lamps made the already stuffy atmosphere unpleasant but Magnus was not about to open a window, even at the height of summer, for fear of someone on the street outside eavesdropping on brotherhood business. He wiped the sweat from his brow with the back of his hand and gestured to the chair opposite. ‘Sit down, Tacita.’