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First Spear: Pro Denuo
Paperback
Series: First Spear
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781950015177
Publisher: Strategic Book Pub
Published: Sep 19 2019
Pages: 550
Weight: 1.76
Height: 1.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
First Spear: Pro Denuo presents the saga of Roman Centurion Gaius Crastinus vividly to life. Up close and personal, this often-dark look into the Legions of Rome is seen through the eyes of a brave soldier and man of honor.
Gaius Killer Crastinus and his fellow veterans, Vorenus, Pullo and Bacculus, have won honor and glory in the service of the SPQR. Now these comrades must introduce a new consignment of recruits to life in the Roman Army. One of them is Gaius' younger brother Marcus.
But training for the young soldiers is cut far too short, for war brews in Lusitania. With only three weeks of training, the newly constituted X Legion is ordered north. Their order is to stop Lusitanii incursions into the province of Hispanica forever. Marcus and his fellow recruits follow Gaius in a desperate fight to safeguard their homeland.
If they survive, even larger troubles loom to the east. Mob violence in Rome and a quarter-million Helvetian tribesmen are invading provinces in southern Gaul. When Marcus is the one chosen to enter enemy territory on a secret mission, only the soldier's god Mithras knows if he will succeed.
This well-researched novel is the sequel to the author's first book First Spear: Rudimenta (Xlibris 2009).
About the Author: Brent Nielsen grew up in the Bay area and graduated from San Jose State University. After a career in the Army, he calls Columbus, Georgia home. I spent the last fifty-plus years studying all things Roman, including Latin, in order to make this project authentic.
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