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

Sidebottom, Harry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0718155947 ISBN 13: 9780718155940

Publisher: Michael Joseph, 2012

Synopsis

In the fifth novel in Harry Sidebottom's acclaimed and bestselling historical fiction series, Ballista returns in Warrior of Rome: The Wolves of the North to undertake yet another epic mission - while the Roman Empire reels in chaos around him.

AD 263 - the Roman Empire is close to turmoil, violent uprising threatening to shatter the fragile balance of power.

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 against each other. He must face the Heruli - the Eaters of Flesh, the Wolves of the North - the most brutal tribe of them all. 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 mutilated corpses and terror.

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

Harry Sidebottom's Warrior of Rome: The Wolves of the North is a nail-biting, action packed epic tale of rebellion and terror set in the Roman Empire.

'A book to keep you up well past your bedtime' Evening Standard

'Blazes with searing scholarship' The Times

Dr Harry Sidebottom is a Fellow of St Benet's Hall and lecturer at Lincoln College, Oxford - where he specializes in ancient warfare and classical art. His previous books in the Warrior of Rome series, Fire in the East, King of Kings, Lion of the Sun and The Caspian Gates have all been bestsellers and are all published by Penguin.

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Review:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0718155947
• ISBN 13: 9780718155940
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432