{"product_id":"galilee-in-flames-what-rome-requires-1","title":"Galilee in Flames (What Rome Requires)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRome is not marble. Rome is maintenance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e66 CE. Nero's empire is fracturing at its edges — and nowhere more violently than Judea, where a provincial rebellion has become open war. Three legions march east under General Vespasian to crush it. Among them: a young Roman tribune who still believes in the permanence of marble.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe is about to learn otherwise.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGALILEE IN FLAMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the first book in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat Rome Requires\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e series — an epic of siege and survival, political calculation and moral reckoning, set across the blood-soaked hillsides of Judea and the treacherous corridors of Rome.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the besieged city of Jotapata, Tribune \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGaius Atilius Regulus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e commands men who die by the arithmetic of empire — men whose names will not be recorded. He came east to prove himself. The siege is teaching him what that costs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn the trade roads of Galilee, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMiriam ben Mattithiah\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e moves through the war as a merchant's daughter, watching both sides with a strategist's eye. What she sees in the pattern of Roman crosses and supply routes tells her more about the war's outcome than any general's dispatch — and that knowledge makes her dangerous to everyone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Rome, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSenator Marcus Atilius Regulus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e navigates a Senate paralyzed by fear, a treasury hollowed by a dying emperor's excess, and the gathering certainty that Nero's reign is ending. The question is not whether Rome will survive. It is who will be standing when the storm passes — and what they will have had to do to get there.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbove them all moves \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJosephus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e — commander, scholar, and survivor — a man who has already calculated how this war ends, and is quietly deciding which side of it he intends to be on.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGalilee in Flames\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is historical fiction in the tradition of Ben Kane and Simon Scarrow: visceral siege warfare, political intrigue across three continents, and soldiers who fight not for glory but because the machine requires it. It is also something rarer — a novel that asks what empire truly costs, and who pays.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe wall will fall. The question is what survives it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45915985182911,"sku":"55689a21-b7f5-4dc1-90b7-5c5a6f5dc0e9","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/26a62ed048445e2f7ef77e0c4e327838.jpg?v=1785086034","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/galilee-in-flames-what-rome-requires-1","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}