Along the way we meet a variety of major historical
figures on both sides of the conflict, as well as characters representing the vast array of other ethnicities who played a part in the war: Iberians and Gauls, Numidians and Libyans, Macedonians and Moors.
The third book focuses
on Jane and Mark Studdock, an academic couple who end up falling
on opposite
sides of a
conflict involving the dystopian events surrounding Bracton College, a sinister corporation, and a mysterious
figure dug up from the bottom
of a well.