![]() Justin is very believable as a stuttering young man who has honest fears and carries the bitter knowledge of having disappointed his father on several levels. Sutcliff's characters are wonderful, as usual. How can they warn an emperor who won't even believe them? But when he hears of it, Carausius only sends them away to an even more dismal assignment in the British backwaters. Soon Justin and his kinsman Flavius happen upon a plot by Carausius's treasurer, Allectus, to overthrow the emperor. Justin, a young military surgeon, is posted to the Roman town Rutupiae to serve under Emperor Carausius. Rome still holds Britain, but the hold is tenuous as Rome's power has already begun to disintegrate. ![]() ![]() The Silver Branch is the second in the Dolphin Ring Cycle and picks up more than a century after the events of The Eagle of the Ninth. ![]() Show More copy of Rosemary Sutcliff's The Silver Branch is one such, an honorable old edition dignified in its share of library stamps and heavy with a promising weight. ![]()
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