First Man In Rome

First in a new series as Colleen McCullough sweeps the reader into the pageantry, passion, splendour and tormented upheaval of ancient Rome.

Rome. 110 BC. A city filled with passion, splendour and dangerous ambition . . .

A city which is home to Gaius Marius, prosperous but lowborn, a proud and disciplined soldier emboldened by his shrewdness and self-made wealth. It is also home to Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a handsome young aristocrat corrupted by poverty, a shameless pleasure-seeker.

Two men of extraordinary vision, men of ruthless ambition, both blessed and cursed by the special favour of Fortune. Men fated to lay the foundations of the most awesome empire ever known, and to play out a mighty struggle for power and glory – for Marius and Sulla share a formidable ambition: to become First Man in Rome.