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Vespasianus
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Kenneth Westlin
Published: May 27 2026
Pages: 498
Weight: 1.26
Height: 1.11 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In a collapsing empire built on wine, lies, corruption and absurd ambition, the old legionary Vespasianus claws his way from starving nobody to emperor of Rome.
Together with the fiercely devoted Domitilla, a woman whose love survives every catastrophe imaginable, he creates a city, a dynasty, and eventually a disaster large enough to shake an empire. Around them grows a world of drunken senators, grotesque weddings, violent arena spectacles, scheming officials, starving citizens, wandering legionaries and impossible family loyalties.
But beneath the absurdity lies something darker.
A lonely man terrified of poverty.
A woman who loves too deeply.
A daughter raised between tenderness and madness.
And a faithful dog who may have been the only true friend Vespasianus ever had.
Darkly comic, brutal, ridiculous and strangely heartfelt, Vespasianus is a satirical historical novel about power, survival, love, corruption and the tragic stupidity of mankind.
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