An army of invasion lurks in the Alps. Italy hovers on the brink of chaos.
Rodi, the youngest spy in the Imperial Secret Service, has been conscripted and sent as a spy from Ravenna by Eleutherius the Eunuch, who has plans to snatch the crown from the head of the country’s now Byzantine rulers.
A mere boy in the cut-throat adult world, he finds himself knee-deep in bodies and snow in an Alpine pass which is all that separates post-Roman Italy from savage invaders from the North and East, hell bent on plunder.
Rodi finds an unexpected ally in a young Lombardian prince Aripert, a potential heir to the throne in the new Empire, who leads a small force sent to snuff out a suspected incursion by Frankish soldiers from the North.
But then onto the scene of slaughter ride the Hun-like Avars from the East – they too want booty.
From the frigid Alps of December, to the palaces of Ravenna, to the crumbling, plague-haunted streets of Rome itself...Read More.
Rodi, the youngest spy in the Imperial Secret Service, has been conscripted and sent as a spy from Ravenna by Eleutherius the Eunuch, who has plans to snatch the crown from the head of the country’s now Byzantine rulers.
A mere boy in the cut-throat adult world, he finds himself knee-deep in bodies and snow in an Alpine pass which is all that separates post-Roman Italy from savage invaders from the North and East, hell bent on plunder.
Rodi finds an unexpected ally in a young Lombardian prince Aripert, a potential heir to the throne in the new Empire, who leads a small force sent to snuff out a suspected incursion by Frankish soldiers from the North.
But then onto the scene of slaughter ride the Hun-like Avars from the East – they too want booty.
From the frigid Alps of December, to the palaces of Ravenna, to the crumbling, plague-haunted streets of Rome itself...Read More.
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