Warrior of Rome I: Fire in the East (Warrior of Rome)

One man is sent to marshal the defences and shore up crumbling walls. A man whose name itself means war: a man called Ballista. Alone, Ballista is called to muster the forces and the courage to stand first and to stand hard against the greatest enemy ever to confront the Imperium.

Reviews

'Sidebottom's prose blazes with searing scholarship' The Times'A well-constructed, well-paced and gripping account' TLS'The best sort of red-blooded historical fiction' - Andrew Taylor, author of 'The American Boy'