Saviour of Rome [Gaius Valerius Verrens 7] (47 page)

I’m grateful to my editor Simon Taylor and his team at Transworld for helping me make
Saviour of Rome
the book it is, and to my agent Stan, of Jenny Brown Associates in Edinburgh, for all his advice and encouragement. As always my wife Alison and my children, Kara, Nikki and Gregor, have been the rocks on which this book has been built. And no acknowledgement would be complete without mention of my beautiful new granddaughter Lily who has brought a different and very special kind of joy into my life. Foremost among the many important sources for research which allowed me to recreate life in Roman Spain were a study on
Configuring the landscape: Roman mining in the conventus Asturum
by Guillermo S. Reher, Lourdes López-Merino, Javier Sánchez-Palencia and Antonio López-Sáez,
Roman gold mining in north-west Spain
by P. R. Lewis and G. D. B. Jones,
Mines, Territorial organization and social structure in Northern Spain
by Almudena Orejas and Javier Sánchez-Palencia and
Recent Archaeological Research at Asturica Augusta
by Victorino Garcia Marcos and Julio Encinas.

A journalist by profession, Douglas Jackson transformed a lifelong fascination for Rome and the Romans into his first two highly praised novels,
Caligula
and
Claudius
. His third novel,
Hero of Rome
, introduced readers to his series hero, Gaius Valerius Verrens. Five more novels followed, helping to establish Douglas as one of the UK’s foremost historical novelists.
Saviour of Rome
is the seventh Gaius Valerius Verrens adventure.

An active member of the Historical Writers’ Association and the Historical Novel Society, Douglas Jackson lives near Stirling in Scotland.

CALIGULA

CLAUDIUS

HERO OF ROME

DEFENDER OF ROME

AVENGER OF ROME

SWORD OF ROME

ENEMY OF ROME

SCOURGE OF ROME

For more information on Douglas Jackson and his books, see his website at
www.douglas-jackson.net

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