Enemy of Rome (52 page)

As always, I’m grateful to my editor Simon Taylor and his team at Transworld for helping me make
Enemy of Rome
the novel it is, and to my agent Stan, of Jenny Brown Associates in Edinburgh, for all his advice and encouragement. My wife Alison and my children, Kara, Nikki and Gregor, have once more been the rocks on which this book has been built. My love of the Roman era never wanes, but it was rejuvenated during the writing of
Enemy of Rome
by a walk along part of the magnificent Hadrian’s Wall with my friends and fellow JAFRAs Ben Kane, Tony Riches and Russ Whitfield, accompanied by historian Mike Bishop whose
Roman Military Equipment
is seldom far from my side. As with
Sword of Rome
, apart from the primary sources – Plutarch, Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio – Gwyn Morgan’s
69 A.D., The Year of the Four Emperors
was my guide to a complicated and sometimes contentious series of events, and any gaps in my ever-advancing knowledge of life in the legions were filled by Stephen Dando-Collins’s
Legions of Rome
.

A journalist by profession,
Douglas Jackson
transformed a lifelong fascination for Rome and the Romans into his first two highly-praised novels,
Caligula
and
Claudius
. His third novel,
Hero of Rome
, introduced readers to his new series hero, the one-armed ex-gladiator Gaius Valerius Verrens.
Defender of Rome
,
Avenger of Rome
and
Sword of Rome
followed and have established its author as one of the UK’s foremost historical novelists. An active member of the Historical Writers’ Association and the Historical Novels Society, Douglas Jackson lives near Stirling in Scotland. To find out more, visit
www.douglas-jackson.net

CALIGULA
CLAUDIUS
HERO OF ROME
DEFENDER OF ROME
AVENGER OF ROME
SWORD OF ROME

For more information on Douglas Jackson and his books, see his website at
www.douglas-jackson.net

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Copyright © Douglas Jackson 2014

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