Rhine of Blood: The Twin Eagles Origins

Ocean's Eleven meets Band of Brothers on the Rhine Frontier.The Empire is built on gold. Rebellion is built on hope. Both will bleed.AD 56, Germania Superior. The Rhine is a knife's edge between Roman order and tribal chaos.Legate Gaius Antonius Valens brings iron discipline to the Twenty-Second Legion. But discipline cannot fight a ghost. Opposing him is Artorix, a chieftain driven by a fractured legacy who forges an uneasy alliance of Gallic and Germanic tribes.When a vital convoy vanishes, the fragile peace breaks. Gaius must hunt an enemy he cannot see, while Artorix gambles everything to drive the eagles from his land.As the stakes rise and the bodies pile up, both men will discover that in the unforgiving lands of the Rhine, only one truth remains:Gold buys armies, but blood buys history.Includes the exclusive bonus novella, The Prodigium. Witness how Julius Lupus-the White Wolf-rose from the gladiatorial sands of Capua.

Pagina's: 400, Paperback, Marc Flanagan