From the master of high adventure--a
sequel to his best-selling novel The Antag-
onists, the bold and powerful novel on
which the television miniseries "Masada"
was based.
The Triumph begins where The Antagonists
ended, with General Flavius Silva, com-
mander of the Tenth Legion and Gover-
nor of Judea, standing amidst the camage
of his bitter triumph at Masada, a victory
which has lost him the confidence of his
troops, the woman he loves--and his
own self-respect. And yet Silva, though
shattered and heartsick, commands one
of Rome s most powerful armies, and so
must be taken into account by the rivals
warring for the throne of the ailing
Emperor Vespasian. Further enmeshed in
the struggle for succession by his growing
passion for Domitillia, the beautiful, inde-
pendent daughter of the emperor, Silva
retums in secret to the capital, weary and
disaffected, no longer even moved by his
own glory, to find himself plunged into a
dangerous and labyrinthine intrigue,
which puts at stake his career, his love,
and his very life.
In The Triumph Ernest K. Gann confirms
his reputation as a storyteller with a por-
trait of Rome as it surely was--the brutal
circuses, in which Jews and Christians
were sacrificed to satisfy the bloodlust of
the mob; the arrogance of the rich and
powerful, whose palaces towered over
vast, squalid slums teeming with crime
and violence; the august deliberations of
a senate in which noble phrases cloaked
the most sordid and ignoble corruption.
Swept into a drama of love, power and
naked ambition, Silva s fate and .thatof
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