Warrior of Rome V: The Wolves of the North - Hardcover

Sidebottom, Harry

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9780718155933: Warrior of Rome V: The Wolves of the North

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ISBN 10: 0718155939 ISBN 13: 9780718155933

Publisher: Michael Joseph, 2012

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Warrior of Rome: The Wolves of the North by Harry Sidebottom marks the start of a new trilogy within the Warrior of Rome series.

AD263 - barbarian invasions and violent uprisings threaten to tear apart the Imperium of Rome.

In the north, the tribes are increasingly bold in their raids on the Imperium - their savagery unlike anything Rome has known before. Ballista must undertake his most treacherous journey yet - a covert attempt to turn the barbarians of the steppe against each other. He must face the Heruli - the most bizarre and brutal of all the nomad tribes - the Eaters of Flesh, the Wolves of the North. As Ballista and his retinue make their journey, someone - or something - is hunting them, picking them off one by one, and leaving a trail of terror and mutilated corpses.

Ballista is in a strange land, among strange people, but is it possible that the greatest threat may come from within his own familia?

Dr Harry Sidebottom is a leading authority on ancient warfare - he applies his knowledge with a spectacular flair for sheer explosive action and knuckle-whitening drama. Fans of Bernard Cornwell will love Sidebottom's recreation of the ancient world.

Praise for Harry Sidebottom:
'Sidebottom's prose blazes with searing scholarship' The Times
'The best sort of red-blooded historical fiction' Andrew Taylor, author of The American Boy

Dr. Harry Sidebottom is Fellow of St Benets Hall, and Lecturer at Lincoln College, Oxford - where he specializes in ancient warfare and classical art.

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Blazes with searing scholarship (The Times)

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Praise for the bestselling Warrior of Rome series:

'A storming triumph' Daily Telegraph

'A storming Roman epic with explosive action and knuckle-whitening drama' Guardian

'For all who fell in love with Gladiator' Evening Standard

'Amazing, spectacular. Wonderful fight scenes, deft literary touches and salty dialogue' Daily Telegraph

'Sidebottom... knows how to keep readers hooked from first to last' Daily Express

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

'Gruesome, Gladiator-style battle scenes and well-researched detail' Shortlist

'Sidebottom is the best in the business' Oxford Times

'Harry Sidebottom's epic tale starts with a chilling assassination and goes on, and up, from there' Professor Mary Beard, Chair of Classics, University of Cambridge

'I don't think I've ever experienced antiquity so directly: the brutality, the directness of expression and feeling, the deep bonds formed amid unmitigated violence' Professor David Konstan, Professor of Classics, Brown University

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