Book description
It's 44 AD, and Vespasian and the Second Legion are forging ahead in
their campaign to seize the south-west of Britain. Macro and newly
appointed centurion Cato are ordered to provide Verica, ruler of the
Atrebatans, with an army. They must train his tribal levies into a force
that can protect him and take on the increasingly ambitious raids that
the enemy is launching. But despite the Atrebatans' official allegiance
to Rome, open revolt is brewing, for many want to resist the Roman
invaders. Macro and Cato must win the loyalty of the disgruntled levies
- but can they succeed whilst surviving a deadly plot to destroy both
them? Macro and Cato face the greatest test of their army careers as
only they stand between the destiny of Rome and bloody defeat... The
bestseller The Gladiator is the ninth novel in Simon Scarrow's Roman
series about Macro and Cato, heroes of the Roman army. Other novels in
the series include the No. 1 bestseller Centurion, as well as Under The
Eagle, The Eagle's Conquest and The Eagle and the Wolves. Simon Scarrow
is also the author of a series of novels about the lives of the Duke of
Wellington and Napoleon Bonaparte. Young Bloods, The Generals and Fire
and Sword have been published to warm acclaim, and the final volume,
Fields of Death, will be published in 2010. To find out more about Simon
Scarrow and his novels, visit www. scarrow. co. uk.
