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All things must come to an end.
Belisarius has spent a lifetime saving Rome from enemies beyond its borders. Now age has weakened his body, war has emptied the treasury, and the empire he restored is beginning to devour the men who kept it alive.
Beyond the frozen Danube, Attila’s heirs are gathering. At their head rides Zabergan, lord of the Huns, carrying the Sword of God and a hatred for Rome nursed since childhood. To the world, he is a conqueror. To Varus the Herulian, he is Samur, the lost brother stolen consumed by a thirst for vengeance.
When the Huns assault the Long Walls and pour across Thrace, Constantinople discovers how little stands between civilization and ruin. The imperial armies are scattered. The court is paralyzed. Justinian has one weapon left: the old general whose victories he has feared for thirty years.
Called from retirement, Belisarius must fashion an army from shopkeepers, farmers, palace guards, and a few battered veterans. At his side, Varus faces the choice that has haunted his entire life. He can save the empire that gave him purpose and consumed everyone he loved, or aid the brother who has come to burn it all to the ground.
The road to their final battle runs through a devastated Italy, a Frankish invasion, the deaths of old companions, and the reckoning of Attila’s bloodline. Survival offers no promise of justice. The palace keeps its own account, and victory may place Belisarius in greater danger than defeat.
In REQUIEM, William Havelock brings THE LAST OF THE ROMANS to its conclusion with Belisarius’s final command, Varus’s final oath, and the fate of an empire built by men it could never bring itself to trust.
The walls are failing. The old companions are dying. One battle remains.
Genre: Historical
Belisarius has spent a lifetime saving Rome from enemies beyond its borders. Now age has weakened his body, war has emptied the treasury, and the empire he restored is beginning to devour the men who kept it alive.
Beyond the frozen Danube, Attila’s heirs are gathering. At their head rides Zabergan, lord of the Huns, carrying the Sword of God and a hatred for Rome nursed since childhood. To the world, he is a conqueror. To Varus the Herulian, he is Samur, the lost brother stolen consumed by a thirst for vengeance.
When the Huns assault the Long Walls and pour across Thrace, Constantinople discovers how little stands between civilization and ruin. The imperial armies are scattered. The court is paralyzed. Justinian has one weapon left: the old general whose victories he has feared for thirty years.
Called from retirement, Belisarius must fashion an army from shopkeepers, farmers, palace guards, and a few battered veterans. At his side, Varus faces the choice that has haunted his entire life. He can save the empire that gave him purpose and consumed everyone he loved, or aid the brother who has come to burn it all to the ground.
The road to their final battle runs through a devastated Italy, a Frankish invasion, the deaths of old companions, and the reckoning of Attila’s bloodline. Survival offers no promise of justice. The palace keeps its own account, and victory may place Belisarius in greater danger than defeat.
In REQUIEM, William Havelock brings THE LAST OF THE ROMANS to its conclusion with Belisarius’s final command, Varus’s final oath, and the fate of an empire built by men it could never bring itself to trust.
The walls are failing. The old companions are dying. One battle remains.
Genre: Historical
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