Volume 1 — The Eagles of Blood
– 12 before Jesus Christ. Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, the great pontiff of Rome, and Agrippa, the appointed successor of the powerful emperor Augustus, are mysteriously murdered by eagles that tear their bowels apart. Alarmed by these events, Augustus entrusts his old friend Senator Alix Gracchus to investigate discreetly. An investigation that will lead Alix, assisted by his sons Titus and Khephren (the own offspring of Enak, which Alix adopted after the disappearance of this one) on the track of the enigmatic master of birds. Yet, the danger persists in getting closer to the emperor in person, ever closer. And Alix will finally discover that the most dangerous of the raptors nests in the very heart of Rome, where no one could suspect him... A new narrative arch opens for the famous character created by Jacques Martin: becoming a senator of Rome as he approaches the mature age, Alix lives new and hectic adventures imagined by Valérie Mangin, and somptuously images.