I picked this book off the shelf in our public library based upon the author being Richard Llewellyn, whose book "How Green Was My Valley" I have read.

It was described as a book about an escaped galley slave.

I really enjoyed reading this book, a work of historical fiction set in a city near Pompeii, called Herculaneum, just before the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius (79 AD). There is some action, romance and violence, but nothing graphic. I thought that this would have made a good 'B' movie in the 1950s. ( )