The Betrayal of Rome (Africanus Trilogy 3)

Last novel of the "Africanus Trilogy," in which we will discover the epic end of two of history's most legendary characters: Scipio and Hannibal.

"I have been the most powerful man in the world, but also the most betrayed."

Thus begins Publius Cornelius Scipio his memoirs in The Betrayal of Rome, to continue with the end of two of history's most epic characters, Scipio and Hannibal.

The eternal enemies meet once more in the Battle of Magnesia, an almost unknown episode in Western history. But in addition to battles, the author tells us what has become of Scipio's children; of his enemies, Marcus Porcius Cato and his ally Gracchus; of the slave Netikerty; of the prostitute Arete; of his faithful ally Laelius; of Antiochus III, the king of Syria; of the already elderly playwright Plautus, who walks the streets of Rome, and also of Scipio's wife, Aemilia Tertia, dignified to the end amidst the greatest public and private hecatombs.

With his characteristic electrifying prose, Posteguillo transports us once again to ancient Rome to be privileged witnesses to the twilight of a life as intense as it was overflowing: the end of the epic of Publius Cornelius Scipio and his entire world in the incomparable setting of a Rome that emerges victorious, above history, not caring to destroy everything and everyone in its unstoppable rise, including its heroes.