Titan Comics Previews Bloody Roman Revenge ‘Caesar’s Spy’ Graphic Novel

by Olly MacNamee

Titan Comics has announced Caesar’s Spy, a new hardback graphic novel from the creative team of French writer Jean-Pierre Pecau and iconic Savage Sword of Conan illustrator Max Von Fafner. A epic sword-and-scandal espionage story set at the height of the Roman Empire it will be out this September. And to help announce the book we have a preview and synopsis:

“Ancient Rome has never been so visceral! Experience the ruthlessness of the coliseum in this revenge plot between a warrior and a king.

With a burning vengeance at the heart of his story, one man will climb the pits of the colosseum to satiate his wrath.

In Rome during the last days of the republic, a warrior from Gaul with a terrible desire for revenge links his destiny to Julius Caesar by becoming his spy.

When the Gallic mercenary Coax takes a Roman as hostage demanding ransom against his liberation, he hasn’t yet realised that he had kidnapped the young Caius Julius Caesar. Caesar doesn’t take long to seek revenge when the two men meet again. With Coax imprisoned to be sold as a slave and then as a gladiator.

But as fortune has it, Coax is offered the opportunity of becoming Caesar’s spy, a mercenary fit to be the gladius of the emperor.”