AGRIPPA (HB)

Julius Caesar is dead, and the lives of two teenaged boys are about to be changed forever. Caesar’s 17-year-old nephew, Octavius, whom he has made his heir, and Octavius’s closest friend, Agrippa. To claim Octavius’s inheritance, they must fight the giant figures of the Roman Empire – and, against all odds, they win. For twenty years, they rule the world together. Now Agrippa is fifty. Ailing and alone, betrayed by his wife’s infidelity, he begins to write his memoirs. He describes how one man has dominated his life: the cunning, ruthless, unknowable Octavius.