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