The Enemies of JupiterFebruary, AD 80. An imperial messenger summons Jonathan's father to Rome, where the fever which started in Ostia is now threatening to become a plague. Jonathan and his three friends go, too, and need to use all their skills to solve a dangerous mystery for the Emperor Titus.

When she disappears from her college in the middle of the night

Timothys humiliation seems complete

The civil wars that have consumed both Rome and Egypt are about to reach their climax in the fabled city of Alexandria

knocks over Felix's bag in the corridor

falls passionately in love with Renata

a genengineered ex-soldier himself

during WWII

is sacked from his latest job as a security guard in Harrods

no one is there to meet him at the station

he has just forty-eight hours to save the professor from the dark forces that threaten to destroy them both

The girl might be the last chance for his Triad

James Thackeray