Headline, 2013. — 392 p. — ISBN10: 9780755398256. A Sunday Times bestseller, Arena is a novel of Rome, gladiators and revenge from the author of Centurion, the Gladiator and Praetorian. It is AD 41. The city of Rome is a dangerous place. Optio Macro of the Second Legion, recently decorated for courage on the battlefield, can't wait to leave the teeming city behind. He's...
The Roman Empire's conquest of Britannia is under threat from within. A messenger on the streets of Rome has been intercepted and tortured, revealing a plot to sabotage the Roman army's campaign against Caratacus, commander of Britannia's native tribes. A treacherous agent's mission is to open a second front of attack against them and eliminate the two Roman soldiers who could...
Centurion is a historical fiction novel written by Simon Scarrow, published by Headline Book Publishing in 2007. It is book 8 in the Eagle series, continuing Macro and Cato's adventures in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire that began in The Eagle in the Sand.
Headline, 2016. Invictus is a gripping, authentic and exciting book of the Roman army from best-selling author Simon Scarrow. Not to be missed by fans of Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell. It is AD 54. The soldiers of the Roman army patrol a growing empire from the Mediterranean to the North Sea, from the Atlantic to the banks of the Nile. Rome brutally enforces its rule, and its...
Praetorian is the 11th book in the series relating the careers of Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro. A consignment of silver bullion is stolen from under the noses of the Praetorian tribune sent to guard it and convey it to Rome, while back in the city wheat is running dangerously short and a new plot to assassinate the Emperor is suspected. It is up to Imperial Secretary Narcissus...
The Blood Crows, published in 2013 is the twelfth volume of the Eagle Series by Simon Scarrow. It features the return of his main characters, Macro and Cato to Brittania, after an absence of almost ten years.
For nearly ten years, the Roman Empire has fought ceaselessly to strengthen its hold over Britannia. But opposition from native tribes led by the ruthless warrior Caratacus...
It’s 44 AD, and Vespasian and the Second Legion are forging ahead in their campaign to seize the south-west of Britain.
Macro and newly appointed centurion Cato are ordered to provide Verica, ruler of the Atrebatans, with an army. They must train his tribal levies into a force that can protect him and take on the increasingly ambitious raids that the enemy is launching.
But...
Vol. VII of the historical fiction series 'The Eagles' (2006).
Trouble is brewing on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire. The troops are in a deplorable state, while the corrupt behaviour of the their senior officers threatens to undermine the army's control of the region. To restore the competence of the men defending a vital fort, two experienced centurions are dispatched...
The Eagle's Conquest is a 2001 novel by Simon Scarrow, about the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 AD. It is the second book in the Eagle Series
When Centurion Macro and his young subordinate, Optio Cato arrive on the shores of Britain to take part in the Emperor Claudius' invasion in AD 43, Macro knows the desperately outnumbered Roman army will be facing one of the toughest...
The mighty Roman army faces Britain's defiant tribes in the series's powerful fifth book
It is late summer AD 44, and the battle-weary Roman legions are in their second year of campaigning against the British tribes. The troop'' commander, General Plautius, is under considerable pressure from the emperor to crush the natives once and for all. Centurions Macro and Cato are with...
The arresting sixth novel in Simon Scarrow's epic series of the Roman army It is spring ad 45 in Rome, and Centurions Macro and Cato, dismissed from the Second Legion in Britain, are waiting for an investigation into their involvement in the death of a fellow officer. It is then that the imperial secretary, the devious Narcissus, makes them an offer they can't refuse: to rescue...
The Gladiator is a 2009 novel by Simon Scarrow, the ninth book in the Eagle series, where we see the return of Macro and Cato, this time up against a ruthless gladiator in the Island of Crete after their ship is damaged by a tidal wave on their way to Rome.
The Legion is a 2010 novel by Simon Scarrow, the tenth book in the Eagle series, where we see the return of Macro and Cato, this time trouble is brewing in Egypt. At the start Macro and Cato are continuing their search for the rebel leader Ajax who has now retreated to Egypt. Meanwhile trouble brews between a bordering nation and the two officers must choose between revenge or...
Under the Eagle is the first book in the Eagle Series, by Simon Scarrow and is his debut novel, introducing the characters of Quintus Licinius Cato and Lucius Cornelius Macro. It was published in 2000.
Britain 43 AD: after a series of bloody battles, Camulodunum (modern-day Colchester) has fallen to the invading Roman army. The Emperor has returned to Rome, leaving the fearless Centurion Macro and his young Optio, Cato, to rest and regroup, along with the rest of the Second Legion. But trouble is not far ahead and as their noble leader General Plautius plans the next phase of...
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