
'A bloody page-turner' Mail on Sunday They call him Felix A lost soldier without a memory & now a brutal battle to win For fans of Bernard Cornwell Simon Scarrow Ben Kane & Conn Iggulden a spectacular debut where honour & duty legions & tribes clash in bloody heart-breaking glory AD 9 Fifteen thousand battle-hardened Roman legionaries strike deep into dense forest Awaiting them are deadly hostile Germanic tribes In a clearing they find twelve massacred & strung-up legionaries Is this a threat or a warning? There is just one bloodied broken survivor He has no idea who he is Only that he is a soldier And now he must fight As the legions are mercilessly cut down the nameless soldier joins a small band of survivors trapped in the forest If they fight together they have a slim chance of staying alive But whose side is the soldier on? & is it the right one?' Gives Rome's legionaries a contemporary voice
- brutal audacious & fast paced' Anthony Riches author of Empire series' Historical fiction written by a real war veteran who knows all there is to know about blood & bonding in battle An earthy & powerful read' Sport' Blood & guts but also a clever exploration of the moral ambiguity of war & loyalty to a flag' Mail on Sunday