![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Ammi-Joan Paquette, Erin Murphy Literary Agency. This maximizes Nielsen’s scope for creating page-turning twists while evoking a milieu that retains its appeal for history buffs. Set during the reign of Tacitus, the story is true to the political and social culture of the time without committing too closely to its political history. Instead, he and the griffin are turned over to Rome, where Nic becomes a pawn of schemers struggling to control the city-or destroy it. Freedom is within reach, but Nic won’t abandon his younger sister. Dropped down a mine shaft to search for a possible buried trove, Nic emerges with a griffin, a scar, and a golden bulla, a magical amulet that once belonged to Julius Caesar. The Praetor Warthe battle to destroy Rome from withinis in full force, and Nic is caught in the crossfire. Nic may have escaped enslavement in the mines outside of Rome, but his troubles are far from over. ![]() Nielsen 4.11 5,458 ratings439 reviews A powerful amulet. Thus his story is as much about his education in the deviousness of human behavior as it is about Nic’s magical fate. Mark of the Thief 2 Rise of the Wolf Jennifer A. Neither naïve nor a fool, his main weakness is lack of experience. Five years of hard labor in the mines haven’t quelled Nic’s will to survive. In vivid first-person narrative, Nielsen (the Ascendance Trilogy) sketches a slave’s-eye view of the Roman Empire. ![]()
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