Caligula Reincarnate: Killer with a Thousand Faces

Dan Brown Meets Hannibal Lecter "This novel's Caligula is a perfect monster: nuanced, well-written, an iconic villain." San Francisco Chronicle WARNING: This novel is based on Gaius Caesar, Caligula, the mad emperor of ancient Rome - a book about this narcissistic, psychopathic killer cannot ignore the heinous facts which made him famous. Most of the book's horrific, cruelly perverse, and murderous scenes are based on recorded events committed by Caligula during his four-year reign. Caligula lived to kill. He lives again to kill again. Over and over, an immortal murderer. A madman with unlimited power gains crippled immortality. Each generation he is among us. Instant reincarnation provides endless lives for a never-ending reign of terror. Two-thousand years after Caligula's reign, Sarah Warner touches an ancient bust of a Roman Caesar and is reluctantly pulled into a deadly hunt. She slowly understands the truth and searches to find and kill the immortal emperor, not just his body, but also kill his soul. Closing in on the sinister, brilliant and paranoid serial killer of the centuries, Sarah becomes the hunted. It is kill-or-be-killed in an intense breakneck pace to the end. Caligula, unaware his presence in the twenty-first century is discovered, continues his luxurious life in the light while he sates his murderous appetite at night. He killed for two-thousand years, littering the centuries with tortured bodies. The mad emperor fears nothing. If caught, he ends a current life, knowing instant rebirth provides a fresh, innocent life to corrupt. --- 1805 - a thirteen-year-old son of slaves undergoes an immediate personality change and murders his friends along the Mississippi River. 1888 - A member of Europe's wealthiest family visits London regularly. After his final visit, the Whitechapel district murders stop. 2020 - Caligula lives in the body of a Saudi royal. After poisoning his family, he creates a personal, secret world where he unleashes the monster he is. --- "Imposing, dark, twisted - Peek gives us a true sense of malice few writers can muster." PW "It has been decades since I've read a character with the depth and evil of Peek's Caligula." Herbie Brennan, The Irish Times "It is a rare author who can truly write heroes and monsters equally well, Peek succeeds. The most original novel in ten years." SF Chronicle