The First Man in Rome
Colleen McCullough
Head of Zeus
<p>110 BC:</p><p>The world cowers before its legions, but Rome is about to be engulfed by a vicious power struggle that will threaten its very existence.</p><p>At its heart are two exceptional men: Gaius Marius, prosperous but lowborn, a proud and disciplined soldier emboldened by his shrewdness and self-made wealth; and Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a handsome young aristocrat corrupted by poverty and vice.</p><p>Both are men of extraordinary vision, extreme cunning and ruthless ambition, but both are outsiders, cursed by the insurmountable opposition of powerful and vindictive foes.</p><p>If they forge an alliance, Marius and Sulla may just defeat their enemies, but only one of them can become First Man in Rome.</p><p>The battle for Rome has just begun.</p>