He gave the world one God. It cost him everything.
Constantinople, AD 337. An old man sits above his own half-built tomb, watching workmen carve the porphyry sarcophagus that will hold him, and begins to write the confession in which he will try to make sense of his life.
He conquered the Roman world. He gave it one God. He built a city that bears his name. And he did it across a wreckage of his own making—a stepmother in her grave, a barbarian kingmaker, a co-emperor strangled in exile, a wife and a son dead.
Told in the voice of Constantine himself, no longer the young gambler of the Milvian Bridge but a haunted old emperor reckoning with everything power cost him, The Thirteenth Apostle moves from the burning of the Praetorian Palace to the war with Licinius, from the Council of Nicaea to the poison cup that will haunt him. The dead speak to him from marble niches. His daughters live like widows in a wing of his palace they call the Convent. And a single deathbed confession will tell him, far too late, that the one unforgivable thing he ever did was a lie.
The Thirteenth Apostle concludes the Constantine the Great trilogy, following Son of Helena and In This Sign. Historical fiction for readers of Conn Iggulden, Simon Scarrow, and Robert Harris.
