Under the Eagle
Do you love the Sharpe series from Bernard Cornwell? If you do then I might have found you another author worth picking up! The authors name is Simon Scarrow. I just finished his first work entitled Under the Eagle. A fast-paced, engrossing and suspenseful story that starts out on the Rhine frontier of the Roman Empire in the 1st century AD. The story line highlights the military and political dealings of the legion and the empire. The two main characters are Cato a recent conscript, and Macro the grizzled veteran. Both are Roman legionaries who are stationed on this frontier confronting the German tribes within and without the empire. Eventually the politics catch up with the legion and they are sent as part of the invasion force to the mythical island of Britain. This is the first book in a series and I know I can't wait to see more of the Roman Empire through the eyes of Scarrow!