Roman Mask, Thomas M. D. Brooke
Roman Mask, Thomas M. D. Brooke
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Roman Mask

Author: Thomas M. D. Brooke

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Unabridged: 19 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/21/2017


Synopsis

Rome AD 9

Augustus Caesar rules Imperial Rome at the height of its power, as the Roman Empire stretches across the known world. Cassius, son of one of her most powerful families, is the personification of Rome's imperial strength: wealthy, popular, a war hero with a decorated military career—none of Rome's fashionable parties are complete without him—except, he hides a secret.

After his nerve is broken in Germany, the thought of genuine armed combat is enough to send him into a cold sweat of fear and shame. But this doesn't dissuade him from living off a false reputation so he can continue a life of casual affairs, wine, and parties, as he is seduced by the many vices of Rome.

However his scandalous life is soon upset by a summons from the Emperor's wife. It ends his happy decadent life and returns him to Germany to assist the Roman legions in their greatest ever trial, and the events that will resound down in history, in the dark forests of the Teutoburg . . .

Reviews

Goodreads review by Keith

Another month, another novel about the Roman disaster in the Teutoburg Forest; for me this novel was a pretty good retelling of the disaster from a potentially interesting point of view. The protagonist is a Roman war hero, famed for his courage; but behind the outward bravado, he is a man clearly s......more

Goodreads review by Sherry

Cassius Aprilis, formerly senior tribune of a legion in Roman Germania, has returned to Rome in acclaim after saving his troops from a German ambush. No one knows that the attack broke Cassius’s nerve, forcing him to resign from command. Bitterly ashamed and loathing himself for his cowardice, he re......more