'A master of the genre' The Times
Britannia has been subdued - and an epic new chapter in Marcus Valerius
Aquila's life begins.
The murderous Roman agents who nearly captured Marcus have been defeated
by his friends. But in order to protect those very friends from the
wrath of the emperor, he must leave the province which has been giving
him shelter. As Marcus Tribulus Corvus, centurion of the second Tungrian
auxiliary cohort, he leads his men from Hadrian's Wall to the Tungrians'
original home in Germania Inferior.
There he finds a very different world from the turbulent British
frontier - but one with its own dangers. Tungrorum, the center of a
once-prosperous farming province, a city already broght low by the
ravages of the eastern plague that has swept through the empire, is now
threatened by an outbreak of brutally violent robbery. A bandit
chieftain called Obduro, his identity always hidden behind an iron
cavalry helmet, is robbing and killing with impunity.
His sword - sharper, stronger and more deadly than any known to the
Roman army - is the lethal symbol of his unstoppable power. And now he
has moved beyond mere theft and threatens to destabilize the whole
northern frontier of the empire . . .
'Some authors are better historians than they are storytellers. Anthony
Riches is brilliant at both.' Conn Iggulden
