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The Last Assassin (Hardcover)
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The Last Assassin (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R536
Discovery Miles 5 360
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'A political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' Hilary
Mantel Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined
to kill the killers. From the spring of 44 BC through one of the
most dramatic and influential periods in history, Caesar's adopted
son, Octavian, the future Emperor Augustus, exacted vengeance on
the assassins of the Ides of March, not only on Brutus and Cassius,
immortalised by Shakespeare, but all the others too, each with his
own individual story. The last assassin left alive was one of the
lesser-known, Cassius Parmensis, a poet and sailor who chose every
side in the dying republic's civil wars except the winning one, a
playwright whose work was said to have been stolen and published by
the man sent to kill him. Parmensis was in the back row of the
plotters, many of them Caesar's friends, who killed for reasons of
the highest political philosophy and lowest personal pique. For
fourteen years he was the most successful at evading his hunters
but has been barely a historical foot note - until now. THE LAST
ASSASSIN dazzlingly charts an epic turn of history through the eyes
of an unheralded man. It is a history of a hunt that an emperor
wanted to hide, of torture and terror, politics and poetry, of
ideas and their consequences, a gripping story of fear, revenge and
survival.
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