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How much of The Coming of the King is Historically accurate?

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Q: Is The Emperor's Spy a sequel to the Boudica: Dreaming books?

A: Yes, and no. Yes, it's set in the same presumptive universe, inhabited by the same people and the same gods and some of the surviving characters from the Boudica books are central to the story. But,...

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Q: Are there more books planned in the series?

A: Yes! The sequel: 'Rome: The Coming of the King will launch in hardback on May 12th 2011 and in paperback in January 2012. The one after that, 'Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth' should be...

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Q: How do you do your research?

A: That depends on what I need to know. By now, I've got a good bunch of friends/acquaintances who are happy to read a draft for accuracy and I've got a library stocked with all the usual suspects...

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Q: The book seems to suggest that Judas the Galilean was the basis for the stories of Christ. Is this what you're saying?

A: Not entirely. That's what it says in the book – but that's because the book is a snapshot of a very short period of time in the mid-60s AD and the bulk of the myth creation happened later,...

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Q: Didn't Josephus say that Christ was the Messiah?

A: No. Well, yes, the editions we have now say that, but it is, to my mind, a fairly blatant bit of editing and clearly fake.
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Q: How did Paul's new creed come to be a major religion?

A: That's an immensely good question and, like all questions into events of this time, we won't ever know for sure – too much time has passed and too many people with too much to lose have had...

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