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Synopsis

The year is AD 255 - the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged along every border. The greatest threat lies in Persia to the east, where the massing forces of the Sassanid Empire loom with fiery menace. There the isolated Roman citadel of Arete awaits inevitable invasion.

One man is sent to marshal the defences and shore up crumbling walls. A man whose name itself means war: a man called Ballista. Alone, Ballista is called to muster the forces and the courage to stand first and to stand hard against the greatest enemy ever to confront the Imperium.

This is part one of Warrior of Rome: an epic of empire, of heroes, of treachery, of courage, and most of all, a story of brutal bloody warfare.

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Reviews

Customer Review: 29 October 2009

Reviewer: Robbie Aird

'Absolutely superb reading, you are transported back in History, I could not wait for the second volume, which I have just finished, now I await the third volume with anticipation. As with the first book you are left hanging wanting to know what will happen next to our Barbarian hero.'

Critic Review:

'Sidebottom's prose blazes with searing scholarship'
The Times

‘An exceptionally gifted storyteller’
Tim Severin

‘The best sort of red-blooded historical fiction’
Andrew Taylor

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