Thunder of the Gods
By: Anthony Riches
Series: Empire -- Volume 8
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9781444731965; 9781444731989
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Marcus Valerius Aquila (Fictitious character); Fiction; History
Description: The eighth book in the Empire sequence takes Centurion Marcus Aquila and his Tungrian legion on a dangerous mission to the heart of the Parthian empire. With Rome no longer safe Marcus and the Tungrians are ordered east, to the desolate border lands where Rome and Parthia have vied for supremacy for centuries. Ordered to relieve the siege of an isolated fortress, their task is doomed to bloody failure unless they can turn the disaffected Third Legion into a fighting force capable of resisting the terrifying Parthian cataphracts. And Marcus must travel to the enemy capital Ctesiphon on a desperate mission, the only man who can persuade the King of Kings to halt a war that threatens the humiliation of the empire and the slaughter of his friends.