The Sunday Times bestesller. INVICTUS is a gripping, authentic and exciting novel of the Roman army from bestselling author Simon Scarrow. Not to be missed by readers 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 legions are the most efficient and aggressive fighting force in the world. Two battle-scarred veterans of this army, Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro, have survived years of campaigning in Britannia and have been recalled to Rome. Their time in the teeming, dangerously political city is short, and soon they are travelling with the Praetorian Guard to Spain, a restless colony where simmering tension in the face of Roman rule is aggravated by bitter rivalry amongst the natives. The challenges that face two old friends and their comrades in arms are unlike any they have seen before - in a land that declares itself unconquerable...
ISBN: | 9781472241351 |
Publication date: | 6th April 2017 |
Author: | Simon Scarrow |
Publisher: | Headline an imprint of Headline Publishing Group |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 480 pages |
Series: | Eagles of the Empire |
Genres: |
War, combat and military adventure fiction European history: the Romans Ancient warfare Modern and Contemporary Fiction Historical adventure fiction Historical Fiction |