The best sort of red-blooded historical fiction - solidly based on a profound understanding of what it meant to be alive in a particular time and place. Andrew Taylor
Harry Sidebottom teaches Ancient History at Oxford University. His career as a novelist began with his Warrior of Rome series, which has sold over half a million copies. The Last Hour , his tenth novel, introduces us once again to Marcus Clodius Ballista, hero of the Warrior of Rome books.
