About the book: 2024 / Young Lucius, nephew of Emperor Caligula, grows up in the house of a caring aunt, far from noisy Rome. He never knew his parents. Life flows happily and carefree, and it seems that nothing more unusual can happen in it than a meeting with an old tortoise that caught the great Augustus. But in the Roman Empire no one is immune from betrayal: neither man, nor woman, nor child. Lucius will soon understand that by the will of fate he ended up in a real nest of snakes and that his very origin is a threat to his life. And learn a harsh lesson: it is better to be cruel than dead. For the first time in Russian!