It really is 54 B.C. Gaius Julius Caesar is definitely sweeping through Gaul. While his victories in the name of Rome are epic, the conventional leaders of the Republic aren’t pleased — these are terrified. Where will the boundless ambition of Rome’s most outstanding soldier end? He should be demolished before he can overthrow the government and install himself as Dictator.

When Cato as well as the Senate betray him, Caesar resolves to carefully turn his genius against his ungrateful nation. Backed by a loyal and skilled military, he about Caesar marches on Rome. But before achieving his objective, he must cope with Pompey the fantastic, a formidable adversary who underestimates the renegade Caesar.

These are tumultuous instances — for Caesar, who endures personal tragedies even as he wages war; for Pompey, who must wrestle with his fear that his greatness is at a finish; for Cicero, whose luminous rhetoric is normally shattered by threat of violence; as well as for the people of Rome, whose future lies in Caesar’s hands.

The fifth novel in Colleen McCullough’s memorable Experts of Rome series, Caesar provides to life the passion and genius of the incomparable man.