Well, you can tell by his (horridly unfortunate) name that he's British. I grabbed the third book in this series, The Caspian Gates, by accident today at the library, but based on the opening chapter alone (to say nothing of his copious maps, chronology and glossary), I'm putting this one down in favor of starting from the beginning with Fire in the East.
The guy knows from Rome too; he isn't just a talented writer whose fiction happens to be historical... He's an Oxford classics prof who happens to write fiction. His website is here, and I am kinda geeked about these books. Ever since I tried, and failed, to get into Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series last summer, I have been hankering for a little more machismo from my Roman fiction. Especially after the slew of female-first-person books I've been reading of late (Pilate's Wife, Cleopatra's Daughter and I promise that I will try to read Cleopatra's Moon before the summer's out), I think that I'm looking forward to a little rock'em-sock'em action. ;)
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