Lord of Chaos

The story deals with the aftermath of the sacking of Rome by the Visigoths in the year 410 AD. The tale is real, most of the characters lived, some created. This period ranks among the most brutal, onerous and immoral times the West has lived through. Lucius and Bruné, two young and beautiful people damaged by what happened, move north to what they believe is a safer and quieter place. They end up in the city of Worms on the Rhine River. There, the Kingdom of Burgundia is founded through Lucius' connivances. The evil Freya-Gund marries the son of the king of Burgundia, poisons the king and becomes queen of the realm. Lucius discovers where Freya-Gund hid the statue she stole from Rome with the horde of precious gems inside, and runs off with it and the king's daughter. Freya-Gund uncovers his crime and chases after them with a vengeance. What happens next takes Lucius to the mountain top of intrigue in the world of the Visigoths and into the bowels of power of the Roman Empire. While the king of the Visigoths searches out a new home for his people, the Emperor of Rome hides, the aristocracy of the city of Rome prays for deliverance, but Lucius is able to manipulate them all. He moves with impunity in a world that has flipped upside down. The Germanic tribes over-run the Rhine and Danube River borders, the Emperor of Rome is powerless, half of Gaul decimated, Briton abdicated and all of Spain lost. For everyone in the West except Lucius Domitilla, it is the beginning of the Dark Ages. For him...well, we are getting ahead of the story. If you like historical fiction, you must read the book. Howard H. Howard says, “I have literally and literarily walked the walk of this adventure: tasted the water in the aqueducts, stepped through the gates of old walled cities, traveled the old goat trails in the Alpine passes, sailed the seas, floated the rivers and entered the tombs of the ancients. Once having laid the foundation for this trilogy in libraries throughout Europe and America, I shifted to the artistic side of my brain. How did sack cloth feel on the naked skin? What did they really eat? How did they get through the winters? How clean was clean? What about sex and violence? With that I leave you to enjoy this raucous tale of adventure and intrigue at the beginning of the Dark Ages.”