Robert Fabbri Books in Order

In the wreckage of Alexander's empire, five rival realms begin to harden into shape. Seleukos struggles to hold Babylon, Antigonos and his son crave revenge, and Artonis and young Herakles back Ptolemy. As loyalties shift, a fresh war threatens to engulf the ancient world.

Alexander's former generals turn on one another as they battle for Babylon, jewel of the east. One eyed Antigonos schemes to seize the city and return west in triumph, while his enemies combine fleets and armies from Greece to Gaza to stop him.

With Alexander's murder no longer in doubt, his former friends and generals fight ever more viciously over what remains of his empire. As alliances shatter and cities burn, a daring marriage plan offers a fragile chance of peace, if its backers survive long enough.

Alexander's sudden death leaves his empire leaderless and sliding toward civil war. While armies clash on land and sea, rival factions hunt for the truth about his final illness, using rumours of murder to rally support and push their own candidates toward the "three paradises" he once held.

Archias is a quick talking actor on the run from his creditors when Alexander's army blocks his escape. Offered one last chance to clear his debts, he must slip into King Darius's camp on the eve of battle and rescue a kidnapped boy from the Persian host.

When Alexander the Great dies in Babylon without naming an heir, his vast empire becomes the greatest prize in the ancient world. Generals, relatives and rivals scramble to control the army and the treasury in a brutal contest that will leave only one ruler standing.

This collection gathers the Magnus novellas, following Marcus Salvius Magnus from the rule of Tiberius through Caligula and Claudius to Nero. Gang wars, rigged races and dangerous errands for senators reveal how one street boss shapes Roman history from the shadows.

While crushing revolt in Judaea, Vespasian knows success could draw Nero's jealousy as easily as praise. After the emperor's suicide plunges Rome into civil war, Vespasian and his brother Sabinus must decide whether to stay loyal or risk everything on a bid for the throne.

Rome, AD 51. A murdered astrologer in Magnus's district turns out to have drawn forbidden horoscopes for the powerful, including his own patron. With a rival brotherhood attacking and the authorities closing in, Magnus races to uncover the plot before his world collapses.

As governor of Africa, Vespasian is ordered deep into the desert to free hundreds of Roman captives from a distant kingdom. Finding a slave city on the brink of revolt, he must lead a desperate escape across the sands while Nero's excesses drive Rome toward fire and unrest.

Back in Rome after years campaigning in Britannia, Marcus Salvius Magnus finds his quarter under pressure from ruthless landlords, rival gangs and an unpaid debt to Vespasia Polla. To stay on top, he must bend Rome's underworld to a risky political scheme.

AD 9. Arminius of the Cherusci, raised in Rome and trusted as a cavalry officer, returns to his German homeland with Roman rank and a secret plan. Torn between two worlds, he engineers the Teutoburg ambush that destroys three legions and reshapes the frontier forever.

Under Nero, Rome seethes as the emperor plots to rid himself of his wife and mother while spending the empire into crisis. Sent to Londinium to steady the finances, Vespasian is swept up in Boudicca's revolt and a province that could take half the empire down with it.

Rome, AD 39. Magnus buys a shipment of illegal weapons that should cement his grip on the streets, only to see the deal collapse and a rival brotherhood move in. To save his business and his life, he must outwit enemies, officials and his own patron.

Rome, AD 51. After eight years of war in Britannia, Vespasian delivers the defeated Caratacus to Emperor Claudius, only to see Agrippina grant the rebel a pardon. Dispatched east to Armenia, he is caught between rival freedmen, a rising religious movement and a mission that may be designed to kill him.

During the Ides of October festival, Magnus scours Rome for a rare drug that will settle a powerful woman's debt. When a street celebration erupts into a riot, he has to steer a furious crowd and protect his interests before the city turns on itself.

In Britannia, AD 45, druids capture Vespasian's brother Sabinus and plan to sacrifice both Flavian brothers beneath ancient stones. Vespasian must fight through rebellion and eerie native religion to save him, while in Rome Messalina falls and Claudius's freedmen gamble on a new empress.

A bookmaker at the Circus Maximus cheats Magnus out of a large win, drawing the wrath of the South Quirinal Crossroads Brotherhood. As he plots revenge, Magnus is asked to fix a chariot race to win a violent consul's support for a crucial election.

After Caligula's murder, Claudius takes the throne and needs a swift, symbolic victory to secure it. Vespasian and his brother Sabinus are sent to recover the lost eagle of the Seventeenth Legion in the German forests, a quest dogged by ambush, sabotage and the first moves toward invading Britannia.

Serving on the fringes of empire, Vespasian is recalled to a Rome now ruled by Caligula, whose grip on reality frays by the day. When the emperor demands Alexander the Great's breastplate from Alexandria, Vespasian is sent on a dangerous theft that could cost him his career and his life.

At sixteen, Vespasian leaves his Sabine farm for Rome, hoping to find a patron and join the legions. Instead he walks into Sejanus's terror ridden city, stumbles into conspiracy and is driven to a frontier legion where rebellion and political assassins follow him into battle.

Magnus, patron of the Crossroads Brotherhood, faces two problems at once: a brothel under his protection has been raided and a senator's ally demands an inventive killing. To keep his reputation and territory, he plans one audacious move to settle both scores.

Posted in Thracia, Vespasian is tasked with extracting an old enemy from a besieged fortress before the legions storm it. The prisoner could destroy Sejanus, but the mission drags Vespasian from mountain ambushes to Tiberius's paranoid court, where a single mistake means execution.