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diciembre 2023 Lote
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Optio Lucius Petronius is living a nightmare. Jewish rebels under their charismatic leader, Shimeon bar Kokhbar, have driven his legion from Judaea, capturing the Imperator Hadrian’s new colony of Aelia Capitolina. The legion may have saved its eagle, but its honour is badly tarnished. Now the Romans have regrouped and plan a campaign to crush the rebellion. They are ready to reclaim Judaea, but they will be proven wrong.
For Lucius, the nightmare worsens, finding himself the focus of an investigation by the Imperator’s Secret Service, the Frumentarii, when he learns devastating family news from Rome. As Rome’s losses grow, Lucius believes legionary tactics may not be effective in the hills of Judaea. He and an ex-gladiator construct a novel strategy to fight the rebels, but will senior officers accept it?
His one solace is a Jewish farm girl, a healer from the hills of Judaea and a Nazarene, a strange match and a further complication in Lucius’ life.
The hills of Judaea will be awash with Roman and Jewish blood before it is over.
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Newly appointed Optio Lucius Decimus Petronius landed in Caesarea on a tranquil sunny day in 132AD. Unfortunately, the weather provided no hint of what was to come, a storm that would rock the Roman army and spell the demise of the Jewish nation. Petronius recognised his youth would be a challenge as an Optio, but he could not have imagined what he would face in one of the Roman Empire’s most severe and bloody revolts.
The tides of this vicious conflict would see Petronius thrown against the heart of the insurrection and its enigmatic leader, Simeon bar Kokhba. His involvement is made more personal by his relationship with a Jewish girl from the Judaean Hills and the elusive Mordecai ben Zakkai, an agent for a small group of pacifist Jewish rabbis.
There would be no mercy in this contest; Jewish accounts tell of a land overflowing with blood. The war would affect or end countless lives, and Lucius Decimus Petronius would not be immune. The young optio of Legio X Fretensis will be forever changed by the horror of a genocidal war. Messiah! begins his story.
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