{"product_id":"nero-by-conn-iggulden","title":"Nero by Conn Iggulden","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom this New York Times bestselling author, the first novel in a new trilogy that finds Empress Agrippina and her young son, Nero, fending off ambitious rivals while shaping their own destiny--if Nero is to become the most feared and notorious emperor of them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story begins with a hand curled around another man's throat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Roman justice: Emperor Tiberius first dispatches a traitor--a friend he once trusted with the city--then the man's whole family and all of his friends. It is as if he never existed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto this fevered forum, a child is born. His mother is Agrippina, granddaughter of Emperor Augustus. But their imperial blood is neither balm nor protection. Rather, it is a liability. Blood is easily spilled or poisoned. So swiftly corrupted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the aging, paranoid Tiberius becomes blind to the ignoble end awaiting him, Agrippina sees the future. Her once-exiled brother Caligula is next in succession, which brings her another step closer to the heart of the empire--to power, ambition, and danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery day she will face soldiers, senators, rivals, silver-tongued pretenders, each vying for position. One mistake risks exile, incarceration, execution. Or, worst of all, perhaps the loss of her infant son.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause Agrippina knows that, even in your darkest moments, opportunity rises. Her son is everything. She can make this boy, shape him into Rome itself--the man before whom all must kneel. But first, Agrippina and Nero must survive . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Landmark Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49682458444016,"sku":"9781639366545","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0586\/1385\/8477\/files\/9781639366545.jpg?v=1778001644","url":"https:\/\/landmark-booksellers.myshopify.com\/products\/nero-by-conn-iggulden","provider":"Landmark Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}