Could the killing of Germanicus Julius Caesar—the grandson of Mark Antony, adopted son of the emperor Tiberius, father of Caligula, and grandfather of Nero—while the Roman Empire was still in its infancy have been the root cause of the empire's collapse more than four centuries later? This brilliant investigation of Germanicus Caesar’s death and its aftermath is both a compelling history and first-class murder mystery with a plot twist Agatha Christie would envy.
Chapter 1. The Murder of Germanicus Caesar
Chapter 2. The Immediate Aftermath
Chapter 6. The Murder Trial Begins
Chapter 7. Prosecution and Defense
Chapter 8. Destroying the Family of Germanicus
Chapter 9. The Downfall of Sejanus
Chapter 10. The Germanicus Emperor
Chapter 11. The Murder of Caligula
Chapter 12. The New Germanicus Emperor
Chapter 13. The Murder of Claudius
Chapter 14. The Murder of Britannicus
Chapter 15. The Claims of Germanicus’s Quaestor
Chapter 16. The Murder of Nero’s Mother
Chapter 17. Death for Burrus and Octavia
Chapter 18. The Plot to Murder Nero
Chapter 20. Unmasking Germanicus’s Murderers
Chapter 21. How the Murder Was Carried Out