General Information
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Book............................Defender Of Rome
Series..........................Gaius Valerius Verrens
No................................02
Author..........................Douglas Jackson
Narrator.......................Cornelius Garrett
Abr/Unabr....................Unabridged
Genre...........................Adventure
Publisher......................Chivers

File Information
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Source...........................10 CDs
Encoder.........................Fraunhofer[FhG] using Exact Audio Copy
Converted to..................64 kbit/s CBR | 44,100 Hz | Mono
Number of MP3s..........10
Total Runtime...............11 Hours 20 Mins
Total Size.......................311 MB
Tweaked-.......................OldScotsman
Date...............................18-February-2012
ID3 Tags........................Includes image and all information shown.

About The Book
Gaius Valerius Verrens returns to Rome from the successful campaign against Boudicca in Britain. Now hailed a 'Hero of Rome', Valerius is not the man he once was - scarred both physically and emotionally by the battles he has fought, his sister is mortally ill, his father in self-imposed exile. And neither is Rome the same city as the one he left. The Emperor Nero grows increasingly paranoid. Those who seek power for themselves whisper darkly in the emperor's ears. They speak of a new threat, one found within the walls of Rome itself.
A new religious sect, the followers of Christus, deny Nero's divinity and are rumoured to be spreading sedition. Nero calls on his 'Hero of Rome' to become a 'Defender of Rome', to seek out this rebel sect, to capture their leader, a man known as Petrus. Failure would be to forfeit his life, and the lives of 20,000 Judaeans living in Rome. But as Valerius begins his search, a quest which will take him to the edge of the empire, he will discover that success may cost him nearly as much as failure.

About The Author
Douglas Jackson was born in Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders in 1956. Educated at Parkside Primary School and Jedburgh Grammar School, and left three weeks before his 16th birthday with six O levels and no idea what he was going to do with the rest of his life.
A friend got him a place on a Youth Opportunities Scheme. It turned out to be restoring a Roman marching camp at Pennymuir in the Cheviot Hills and had a wonderful summer turning turf and dreaming of Romans.
Obviously, unable to do that for the rest of his life his dad pointed him towards an advert for a junior reporter with the local paper and that changed his life. The next 30-odd years have been spent working in local and national newspapers and endended up assistant editor of The Scotsman in Edinburgh. 
He wrote his first novel Caligula on a packed commuter train between Stirling and Edinburgh every day on his way to work.
He now live in Bridge of Allan, a lovely village on the doorstep of the Trossachs and is married with three children.

About The Reader
Cornelius Garret has performed in repertory theatres throughout the UK and has appeared in several of the BBC Shakespeare plays, the fashion series GEMS, White Lady for BBC Screen 2, Casuality and the James Bond Film for Your Eyes Only.   He has worked extensively in radio drama including classic BBC Radio 4 serials, many Afternoon and Saturday Night Theatre productions as well as programmes for the World Service.