Caesar: Let the Dice Fly

NY: William Morrow and Company, Inc. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0688093728 . Stated First Edition, first printing (full number line). Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over red boards, gilt lettering on spine, maps on endpapers. Illustrated with ten B&W portraits and fourteen maps by the author. Includes extensive Glossary. This is the fifth volume in Colleen McCullough's massive Roman epic, The Masters of Rome, a life of Gaius Julius Caesar, covering not only his career, but also the periods immediately before and after Caesar. McCullough's books in her Masters of Rome series are perhaps the finest historical novels based on Roman history that have ever been produced, and provide the reader with unequalled absorption into Roman life, suspense, excitement and minutely accurate Roman history. It is 54 B. C. Gaius Julius Caesar is sweeping through Gaul, crushing the fierce. Long-haired warrior-kings who stand in his way. His victories in the name of Rome are epic, but the leaders of the Republic are not pleased, they are terrified. They do not know where what they perceive as the boundless ambition of Rome's most brilliant soldier will stop. He must be destroyed before he can overthrow the government and install himself as Dictator. When Cato and the Senate betray him, Caesar, in a momentous decision at the river Rubicon, resolves to turn his genius against the ungrateful Senate and aristocracy. These are tumultuous times - for Caesar, who endures personal tragedy and disappointment even as he wages war; for Pompey, who must wrestle with his fears that his greatness is at an end; for Brutus, who is caught in a hopeless love for his cousin Portia; for Cicero, whose luminous rhetoric is shattered by threats of violence; and for Rome, whose destiny lies in Caesar's hands. The fifth novel in Colleen McCullough's unforgettable Masters of Rome series, Caesar brings to life the passion and genius of an incomparable man. McCullough's seven books in her Masters of Rome series include The First Man in Rome (1990); The Grass Crown (1991); Fortune's Favorites (1993); Caesar's Women (1996); Caesar (1997); The October Horse (2002); and Antony and Cleopatra (2007).. Remainder mark on bottom edge, else fine. The unclipped dust jacket is only slightly shelf-worn. NEAR FINE/FINE. . Masters of Rome Series. Vol. 5. B&W Illustrations. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (vi), 664 pp .