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Whyte, Jack.
Subjects
Revenge -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
Romans -- England -- Fiction.
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Whyte, Jack.
Revenge -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
Romans -- England -- Fiction.
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The burning stone / Jack Whyte.
by
Whyte, Jack.
Viking, 2018.
Call #:
FICTION
WHY
Subjects
Revenge --
Fiction
.
Secrecy --
Fiction
.
Romans -- England --
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780670070008 (hc.)
Description:
xlvi, 544 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"Fleeing the massacre of his entire family save a single uncle, young Roman aristocrat Quintus Varrus arrives in fourth-century London not knowing who is to blame for the murders nor whom he can trust now. He fears for his life, but when he meets a young Irish woman named Lydia Mcuil, their lives quickly become intertwined and her father offers to set the young Roman up as a smith (under an Irish alias) in the town of Colchester while the young lovers get to know each other from a distance. But the assassins haven't forgotten Quintus and a deadly ambush is barely thwarted, bringing the young Roman into friendship with his rescuer, a hardened former military policeman known as Rufus Cato, who has his own score to settle with the powerful man behind the attack. Quintus is introduced to the secrets of a powerful, ancient brotherhood that is trying to halt the rot that is destroying their beloved Empire--secrets that may finally reveal the identity of those who murdered his family, and expose the shocking reason
why
."--Publisher.
Genre:
Fantasy
fiction
.
Historical
fiction
.
Adventure
fiction
.
Canadian
fiction
.
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