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The Romans

Donald Cotton (1987)

SubgenreSpace Opera
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
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SeriesDoctor Who Target novelizations #120
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The TARDIS crew members have taken a break from their adventures and are enjoying a well-deserved rest in a luxury villa on the outskirts of Imperial Rome. But in the gory grandeur that is Rome, things don’t stay quiet for long. If the time-travellers can save themselves from being sold as slaves, assassinated by classical hit-men, poisoned by the evil Locusta, thrown to the lions, maimed in the arena and drowned in a shipwreck, they still have to face the diabolical might of the mad Emperor Nero. As if that isn’t enough, they also discover that, although Rome wasn’t built in a day, it was burnt down in considerably less time...