City of Fire

He was suddenly quiet, his voice low and earnest, forcing knowledge of his purpose into the broken skull below him. You killed her. You and the others. Raped and murdered her, just as I kill you now … There is no escape for those upon whom the gladiator Vulpus desires to visit vengeance. And the man who has butchered more opponents than any fighter in Imperial Rome possesses the terrifying skills which can inflict a cruel, drawnout death. Among the brothels and arenas of Pompeii he seeks out the next victim in his relentless hunt for the men who tortured and slayed a beautiful British princess long ago. But as he corners his quarry, a grey volcanic dust begins to fall onto the doomed city …