Kill mother. Deal with your brother. To get rid of his wives. To force a teacher to accept a terrible death... All this gave him genuine pleasure. His inflamed imagination was inexhaustible for sophisticated executions, bloody torture, obscene entertainment. His contemporaries called him the Antichrist. His perversity knew no prohibitions. Didn't obey reason. She knew no pity. Impunity. Cruelty. Obscenity. Incest. These are not just words. This is the life of the great Nero. Max Gallo is a famous French writer, historian, biographer and politician, author of more than 80 works. All of the writer’s historical novels are world bestsellers, translated into many languages. In the 1980s, Max Gallo was part of the cabinet of François Mitterrand as minister, speaker and government spokesman. “For me, the novel is a genre of hypothesis, a genre into which you can introduce any elements of reality, not just facts...” Max Gallo.