Los asesinos del emperador

Synopsis of Los asesinos del emperador

«Los asesinos del emperador» is the historical novel by Santiago Posteguillo, published by Editorial Planeta in hardcover (1200 pages, in Spanish).

Rome, 1st century AD. The paranoid emperor Domitian reigns amid denunciations and condemnations, while a conspiracy to end him takes shape. Trajan, the empress Domitia and a group of gladiators are drawn into a plan that goes awry: betrayals, combats in the Colosseum and a civil war decide the course of the Empire.

First installment of the Trajan Trilogy. Published on September 2, 2011 in the Autores Españoles e Iberoamericanos collection.

Recommended for fans of historical fiction set in ancient Rome and of plots of power and conspiracy.