Return to Old Rome – where politics, ambition, and greed collide in the fortunes of two fiercely powerful men: Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the great general who profits from exile to become installed seeing that dictator, and then stuns Rome along with his startling self-imposed retirement; and Pompey, the youthful scion of an enormously effective rural family, who determines to leapfrog over the original milestones to Roman politics pre-eminence at all necessary.

Passionate, ambitious, and larger than about Fortune’s Preferred life, these males play out their fortunes against rebellious elements in Spain, harmful rumblings in the East as well as the doomed slave revolt from the tragic shape Spartacus. But a larger threat to their place ever sold awaits – the fiery young warrior Julius Caesar, exploding right now into manhood, his priest’s robe shed in a most amazing manner. A newcomer to military glory and the Senate, he earns a formidable status as diplomat, attorney and politician.

In exciting and unrivaled grandeur, Fortune’s Favorites sows the seed products of Caesar’s awful rivalry with Pompey, and pieces into motion the events that will finally enable him to tower over background forever.