Altar of Blood: Empire IX - Couverture souple

Riches, Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1444732056 ISBN 13 : 9781444732054

Editeur : Hodder Paperbacks, 2016

Synopsis

'A master of the genre' The Times

The Tungrians have no sooner returned to Rome than they find themselves tasked with a very different mission to their desperate exploits in Parthia.

Ordered to cross the river Rhenus into barbarian Germany and capture a tribal priestess who may be the most dangerous person on the empire's northern border, they are soon subject to the machinations of an old enemy who will stop at nothing to sabotage their plans before they have even set foot on the river's eastern bank.

But after their Roman enemy is neutralised they face a challenge greater still.

With two of the Bructeri tribe's greatest treasures in their hands they must regain Roman territory by crossing the unforgiving wilderness that was the graveyard of Roman imperial strategy two hundred years before. And capture by the Bructeri's vengeful chieftain and his warband can only end in one way - a horrific sacrificial death on the tribe's altar of blood.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anthony Riches holds a degree in Military Studies from Manchester University. He began writing the story that would become the first novel in the Empire series, Wounds of Honour, after visiting Housesteads Roman fort in 1996. Married with three grown up children, he now lives in Suffolk. He is also the writer of the 'Protector' thriller series.

www.anthonyriches.com

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The ninth novel in the thrilling Empire sequence leads Centurion Marcus Aquila and the Tungrians to the battlefield of one of Rome's most disastrous defeats.


The Tungrians return to Rome from Parthia - only to be sent north on a very different new mission in barbarian Germany.

Their goal is to capture a tribal priestess who may be the most dangerous person on the empire's northern border. If they can evade the machinations of an old enemy who will stop at nothing to sabotage their plans before they have even set foot on the Rhine's eastern bank . . . .


And if they succeed in their mission, they must still regain Roman territory by crossing the unforgiving wilderness that was the graveyard of imperial strategy two hundred years before.

And capture by the Bructeris' vengeful chieftain and his warband can only end in one way - a horrific sacrificial death on the tribe's altar of blood.


'Some authors are better historians than they are storytellers. Anthony Riches is brilliant at both.' Conn Iggulden

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hodder Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1444732056
• ISBN 13: 9781444732054
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible