Avenger of Rome (45 page)

Acknowledgements

Thanks once again to my editor Simon and his wonderful team at Transworld, my agent Stan at the Jenny Brown Agency and most of all to my wife Alison and my children, Kara, Nikki and Gregor, for their unfailing support.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Douglas Jackson
is rapidly developing a reputation as one of the best historical novelists writing today. He turned a lifelong fascination with Rome and the Romans into his first two novels,
Caligula
and
Claudius
.
Avenger of Rome
is the third title in his series featuring Gaius Valerius Verrens; the first two,
Hero of Rome
and
Defender of Rome
, are available in Bantam Press hardcover and Corgi paperback.

Also by Douglas Jackson

CALIGULA

CLAUDIUS

HERO OF ROME

DEFENDER OF ROME

For more information on Douglas Jackson and his books,
see his website at
www.douglas-jackson.net

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AVENGER OF ROME
BANTAM PRESS: 9780593065167
Version 1.0 Epub ISBN: 9781409032939

First published in Great Britain
in 2012 by Bantam Press
an imprint of Transworld Publishers

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