Leopard Sword

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Britannia has been subdued
- & an epic new chapter in Marcus Valerius Aquila's life begins. The murderous Roman agents who nearly captured Marcus have been defeated by his friends. But in order to protect those very friends from the wrath of the emperor he must leave the province which has been giving him shelter. As Marcus Tribulus Corvus centurion of the second Tungrian auxiliary cohort he leads his men from Hadrian's Wall to the Tungrians' original home in Germania Inferior. There he finds a very different world from the turbulent British frontier
- but one with its own dangers. Tungrorum the center of a once-prosperous farming province a city already broght low by the ravages of the eastern plague that has swept through the empire is now threatened by an outbreak of brutally violent robbery. A bandit chieftain called Obduro his identity always hidden behind an iron cavalry helmet is robbing & killing with impunity. His sword
- sharper stronger & more deadly than any known to the Roman army
- is the lethal symbol of his unstoppable power. & now he has moved beyond mere theft & threatens to destabilize the whole northern frontier of the empire.. .' Some authors are better historians than they are storytellers. Anthony Riches is brilliant at both.' Conn Iggulden