Wounds of honour
By: Anthony Riches
Series: Empire -- 1
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780340920312; 9780340920305; 9780340920329
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: Marcus Valerius Aquila has scarcely landed in Britannia when he has to run for his life--condemned to dishonorable death by power-crazed Emperor Commodus. The plan is to take a new name, serve in an obscure regiment on Hadrian's Wall and lie low until he can hope for justice. Then a rebel army sweeps down from the wastes north of the Wall, and Marcus has to prove he's hard enough to lead a century in the front line of a brutal, violent war.