Peter Stothard is an author, journalist, and critic. He is a former editor of The Times of London and of The Times Literary Supplement. His books include Alexandria, The Last Nights of Cleopatra, and On the Spartacus Road, A Spectacular Journey through Ancient Italy.

Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Roman Senate on March 15th, 44 BCE. For the next fourteen years, his killers were hunted down and murdered in turn. This is their story, one of ordinary men's motives at an extraordinary time, of ambitions, dreams, ideas, dizzying transformation in politics, desperate fear, and how to keep fear at bay.