Bleak, rainy and full of vicious savages, Britannia is a land that Cato, solider of the Second Legion, wishes Rome didn't want to conquer.Īnd as right-hand man to Centurion Macro, Cato sees the very worst of his native Britons, battling alongside his commander in bloodier combat than he could ever have imagined.īut the Britons are fighting back with Roman weapons - which means someone in their own ranks is supplying arms to the enemy. After the long march west, Cato and Macro undertake a special mission that will thrust them headlong into a conspiracy that threatens to topple the Emperor himself.īritannia, AD 43. Then the men discover that the army's next campaign will take them to a land of unparalleled barbarity - Britain. As second-in-command to Macro, the fearless, battle-scarred centurion who leads them, Cato has more to prove than most in the adventures that lie ahead. If adjusting to the rigours of military life isn't difficult enough for the bookish young man, he also has to contend with the disgust of his colleagues when, because of his imperial connections, he is appointed a rank above them. Hiding from their former comrades, as well as the Britons, Cato's small band of fugitives have only one chance to redeem themselves before they are hunted down like animals.It is AD 42, and Quintus Licinius Cato has just arrived in Germany as a new recruit to the Second Legion, the toughest in the Roman army. Their choice: die or escape to become fugitives pursued by soldiers of their own ruthless army. Outraged by this failure, General Plautius orders the annihilation of the unit.
Centurions Macro and Cato are with the crack Second Legion under the precarious leadership of Centurion Maximus and it is their task to hold a ford across the river Tamesis when the natives are forced into a trap.īut Maximus's nerve breaks at the critical point, allowing the enemy leader, Caratacus, and his men to escape. The troops' commander, General Plautius, is under considerable pressure from the emperor to crush the natives once and for all. 44 and the battle-weary Roman legions are in their second year of campaigning against the British tribes.
The mighty Roman army faces Britain's defiant tribes in this epic fifth novel of Simon Scarrow's acclaimed series, The Eagle's Prey
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