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**PRE-ORDER NOW to secure the special Collector’s Edition – available only while stock lasts and exclusive to the first print run**A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, BBC CULTURE, THE MIRROR AND RADIO TIMESThe Sunday Times number one bestselling author returns to Ancient Rome in his latest thriller – coming August 2026. ‘A master storyteller’ OBSERVERJulius Caesar is dead, and the lives of two teenaged boys are about to be changed forever. One is Caesar’s 17-year-old nephew, Octavius, whom he has made his heir.

The other is Octavius’s closest friend, Agrippa. To claim Octavius’s inheritance, they must fight the giant figures of the Roman Empire – and, against all odds, they win. Octavius becomes the Emperor Augustus.