No Roads Lead to Rome

Amazon 2011 Breakthrough Novel semi-finalist!It's AD 123. On the edge of the Roman Empire, a dead governor leaves behind the opportunity of a lifetime. Mysteriously promoted, a senator's son finds himself in an ancient world of trouble. Within days of taking office, Hispania's taxpayers are in open revolt, all legionaries depart to build Hadrian's Wall, and the once-sleepy province is rocked by slave revolts, bread riots, and fad religions. A quixotic saga steeped in humor and history, "No Roads Lead to Rome" chronicles the clumsy schemes of the new governor and his shadowy adviser, a superstitious centurion's struggle to save his faith in the faded ideals of the Republic, and a young rebel's reluctant vow to change the course of history. All are pitted against the Gods, the Emperor, and the decline and fall of nearly everything.It's AD 123--a time not unlike the present--and No Roads Lead to Rome.From Publishers Weekly:The Roman Empi

R.S. Gompertz grew up in Southern California inasmuch as growing up in a suburb of Disneyland was possible.
He is the author of humorous novels "No Roads Lead to Rome" and "Aqueduct to Nowhere," as well as a memoir of his cross-cultural mishaps in Barcelona called, "The Expat's Pajamas."
To learn more about the author, please visit his Amazon author page.