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Almost as good as The Egyptian but it kind of spluttered towards the end.
As with his other books this is a fictional autobiography covering the reign of Emperor Claudius's reign until Domitian. It mainly covers Nero's reign. As with his other books the narrator gets to rub shoulders with the rich and famous, has no luck with women and somehow schemes and survives all of the various Roman power struggles.
The character is quite interesting as he appears a naive nice guy but is quite cunning and ruthless. It's possible a very realistic portrayal of what a person had to do to survive in those days.
The book also covers the early days of Christianity and it's conflict with the Jews and Roman religions. Quite fascinating.
Waltari is now one of my fav historical fiction writers.