Book description
It is spring 45 AD and Centurions Macro and Cato, dismissed from the
Second Legion in Britain, are trapped in Rome, waiting for their
involvement in the death of a fellow officer to be investigated. It is
then that the imperial secretary, the devious Narcissus, makes them an
offer they can't refuse: to rescue an imperial agent who has been
captured by pirates operating from the Illyrian coast. With him were
scrolls vital to the safety of the Emperor and the future of Rome.
However, Narcissus also sends Vitellius, an old enemy of the two
centurions. The three officers set out from Ravenna with the imperial
fleet but the pirates are forewarned and the Romans pay a heavy price.
Outnumbered by the enemy, surrounded by rumours of treachery and
endangered by Vitellius' desire to redeem himself, Centurions Macro and
Cato must find the pirate base to avert a disaster that could destroy
the Emperor. It's Spartacus meets Master and Commander in this
rip-roaring, thoroughly entertaining tale of swashbuckling adventure
from one of the most exciting writers in historical fiction' 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.
