[Twilight of Empire 01] • The War at the Edge of the World

[Twilight of Empire 01] • The War at the Edge of the World
Authors
Ross, Ian
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Tags
war
ISBN
9781784081126
Date
2015-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
1.81 MB
Lang
en
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The epic first instalment in a sequence of novels set at the end of the Roman Empire, during the reign of the Emperor Constantine.

Aurelius Castus believes his glory days are over. He used to be a soldier in the elite legions of the Danube. Now he is stuck in Britain's provincial backwater. But history takes a hand when the king of the Picts, the savage people beyond Hadrian's Wall, dies in mysterious circumstances, and Castus is selected to command the bodyguard of a Roman envoy sent to negotiate with the barbarians.

The diplomatic mission ends in bloody tragedy. Castus and his men are soon fighting for their lives and the legionary discovers that nothing about his doomed mission was ever what it seemed.