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The Marcus Mettius Series #4
Caesar's Lictor: The Lords of Luca
Why does Marcus Mettius insist on continuing to work for Julius Caesar? Does he want to die early and leave a good-looking corpse, or is he just stupid?
Nah, he plans on being around for some time – he is definitely not the check-out-early type! As for being stupid – stupid people don’t become close confidants to the leaders of the richest and most powerful political and military force of the day. Maybe he’s a little naïve, but hell, that’s part of his charm!
Julius Caesar certainly isn’t stupid, and he was faced with an almost impossible task: get Pompey and Crassus together in the same tent and fix their damn political alliance, which had more holes in it than a field slave’s tunic. But those two are like olive oil and water, and Caesar needs all of the help he can get to pull it off. No ordinary event planner will do – he needs Marcus Mettius!
So our intrepid hero finds himself in Cisalpine Gaul, helping his old buddy Gaius Valerius Troucillus manage one of the most important conferences in history – the meeting of the Triumvirate at Luca. In addition to all of the usual mundane tasks (lining up supplies, generating blurbs for the media, etc.) he also has to find time for the important things in life – like sampling the local cuisine and trying to talk his recalcitrant slave Vinus into doing what he asks. Oh, and avoiding being beaten to death by snarling muscleheads.
Sigh. It’s not easy being the right-hand man for one of the most famous leaders of all time. But where would Caesar be without him?
Join Marcus in the next thrilling episode of his eventful life in Caesar’s Lictor!
Nah, he plans on being around for some time – he is definitely not the check-out-early type! As for being stupid – stupid people don’t become close confidants to the leaders of the richest and most powerful political and military force of the day. Maybe he’s a little naïve, but hell, that’s part of his charm!
Julius Caesar certainly isn’t stupid, and he was faced with an almost impossible task: get Pompey and Crassus together in the same tent and fix their damn political alliance, which had more holes in it than a field slave’s tunic. But those two are like olive oil and water, and Caesar needs all of the help he can get to pull it off. No ordinary event planner will do – he needs Marcus Mettius!
So our intrepid hero finds himself in Cisalpine Gaul, helping his old buddy Gaius Valerius Troucillus manage one of the most important conferences in history – the meeting of the Triumvirate at Luca. In addition to all of the usual mundane tasks (lining up supplies, generating blurbs for the media, etc.) he also has to find time for the important things in life – like sampling the local cuisine and trying to talk his recalcitrant slave Vinus into doing what he asks. Oh, and avoiding being beaten to death by snarling muscleheads.
Sigh. It’s not easy being the right-hand man for one of the most famous leaders of all time. But where would Caesar be without him?
Join Marcus in the next thrilling episode of his eventful life in Caesar’s Lictor!
69 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 31, 2014
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September 29, 2014
Another brilliant evocation of the late Roman Republic, which, though quite irreverent, seems quite plausible as far as the principal characters are concerned. But though Caesar, as always, hold his own, the real performance in this is Pompey... who really succeeds in twisting the tail of our hero. Look forward to more in this series which bring ancient history to most colourful light...
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