September, 46 BC.

Rome erupts in its greatest triumph. Gaius Julius Caesar marches through the city, hailed as a god. Behind him, chained like a beast, walks Vercingetorix, the man who dared to unite Gaul against Rome.

When the clamor fades, only darkness remains.

For nearly six years, the Gallic leader has been buried deep within the bowels of the Urbs, in the Mamertine Prison. A place without time, without light, without hope. The antechamber of death. Watching over him is a single man: the centurion Publius Sextius Baculus. A Roman soldier. An enemy. A jailer.

Within those damp stones, where the world ceases to exist, prisoner and guard are forced to share solitude, silence, and memories. War returns in their stories, battles reopen, choices demand their price once more. Slowly, what once divided them begins to crumble. Because when only darkness and the wait for the end remain, there are no victors or vanquished. There are only men.

Now, during the triumph, they understand that everything they have lived leads to that moment, and that the value of a friendship forged in the fire of battle can be greater than life itself.

The Prisoner of Caesar is not a novel about glory. It is a novel about resistance.

About the weight of defeat. About honor that survives even when everything is lost.

It is a descent into the abyss of the human soul, where living and learning how to die become the same thing.

Italian Edition
Newton Compton  – January 2022 – 512 pages
ISBN: 978-88-227-6059-3