BOOKS: Swords and sandals
Eagles of the Empire: Invictus by Simon Scarrow
The world has never seen a civilisation as dominant as Rome in its prime and pomp, and the history of the Roman Empire is fertile ground for stories of scheming senators, rebellion and retribution, military might and battlefield gore.This is the 15th book in Scarrow’s Eagles of the Empire series, yarns of strategies and campaigns to enforce Rome’s power and dominion in the century after its conversion to an imperial entity. Neophytes to the series will easily grasp the context and characters’ backstories. The politics of the military, its immersion into — and importance within — traitorous succession battles and power plays, assassination attempts and mob rule: these are well-known hallmarks of Rome’s recorded history.Invictus continues the adventures of Scarrow’s protagonists Cato and Macro, soldiering centurions who see action in far-flung regions of the realm. This time they are dispatched to Hispania in 54AD, where widespread revolt has broken out, threatening the Pax Romana as ...
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