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AuthorAnthony Riches
NarratorSaul Reichlin
SeriesEmpire, Book 10
Duration14h 8m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Historical Novels
PublisherHodder & Stoughton
VersionUnabridged
Set in the second century AD, The Scorpion's Strike continues the story of Marcus Aquila's fight for justice for a family ripped asunder by imperial assassins. Still seeking revenge, Marcus finds himself thrown back into the heart of the chaos that is shaking the Roman Empire to its roots. Fresh from their close escape from imperial betrayal in the German forest, Marcus and the Tungrians are ordered to Gaul, where an outlaw called Maturnus is wreaking havoc. Havoc that may be more than mere banditry, as deserters and freed slaves flock to his cause: rebellion is in the air for the first time in a generation. And if escape from Rome's memories is a relief for the young centurion, he soon discovers that danger has followed him west to Gaul. The expedition is led by Praetorians whom he has every cause to hate. And to fear, if they should discover who he really is. (P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Author: Anthony Riches
Author Anthony Riches
Narrator Damian Lynch
SeriesEmpire, Book 15
Duration 10h 43m
Following the Year of the Five Emperors, three are left in the field. A final bloody confrontation is inevitable as the ruthless Septimius Severus advances through Cappadocia and Cilicia on the heels of the retreating legions of the Emperor in the East, Percennius Niger. Co-opted into Severus's legions are two veterans who, after long service, now...
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Author: Anthony Riches
Author Anthony Riches
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesEmpire, Book 8
Duration 14h 42m
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 borderlands where Rome and Parthia have vied for supremacy for centuries. Ordered to relieve the siege of an iso...
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Author: Anthony Riches
Author Anthony Riches
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesEmpire, Book 13
Duration 11h 39m
A new civil war has begun: with the emperor Pertinax's murder Marcus and his protector Scaurus have escaped Rome, seeking sanctuary for their familia in the East. But they are soon pressed back into service by Septimius Severus, the ruthless commander who has seized the imperial capital and who holds the military balance of power over his two rival...
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Author: Anthony Riches
Author Anthony Riches
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesEmpire, Book 6
Duration 14h 1m
The Tungrian auxiliary cohorts return to Hadrian's Wall only to find Britannia in chaos. The legions are overstretched, struggling to man the forts of the northern frontier in the face of increasing barbarian resistance. The Tungrians are the only soldiers who can be sent into the northern wastes, far beyond the long abandoned wall built by Antonin...
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Empire Series Book 5: The Wolf's Gold
Author: Anthony Riches
Author Anthony Riches
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesEmpire, Book 5
Duration 13h 41m
Fresh from their victory in Germania, Marcus Aquila and the Tungrians have been sent to Dacia, on the northeastern edge of the Roman Empire, with the mission to safeguard a major source of imperial power. The mines of Alburnus Major contain enough gold to pave the road to Rome. They would make a mighty prize for the marauding Sarmatae tribesmen who...
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Author: Anthony Riches
Author Anthony Riches
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesEmpire, Book 9
Duration 15h 4m
The Tungrians have no sooner returned to Rome than they find themselves tasked with a very different mission from their desperate exploits in Parthia. Ordered to cross the river Rhenus into barbarian Germany and capture a tribal priestess who may be the most dangerous person on the empire's northern border, they are soon subject to the machinations...
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Empire Series Book 1: Wounds of Honour
Author: Anthony Riches
Author Anthony Riches
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesEmpire, Book 1
Duration 13h 32m
Thrilling, authentic, and action packed, this novel introduces soldier hero Marcus Valerius: a centurion stationed on Hadrian's Wall in the second century during a revolt against the Roman Empire. Marcus Valerius Aquila has scarcely landed in Britannia when he has to run for his life - condemned to dishonorable death by power-crazed emperor Commodu...
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Author: Anthony Riches
Author Anthony Riches
Narrator Damian Lynch
SeriesEmpire, Book 14
Duration 10h 35m
Marcus Aquila and his patron Rutlius Scaurus have fought a superior enemy force to a standstill in Thracia, gaining the favour of the gods but paying a grievous cost in their family's blood. Battle-weary and mourning their losses, they are tasked with rooting out a spy ring operating in the lands into which their imperial master Severus's armies ar...
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The Emperor's Knives: Empire VII
Author: Anthony Riches
Author Anthony Riches
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesEmpire, Book 7
Duration 15h 19m
The seventh novel in Anthony Riches' acclaimed Empire sequence brings Marcus Aquila back to Rome, hunting the men who destroyed his family. But the revenge he craves may cost him and those around him dearly. The young centurion's urge to exact his own brutal justice upon the shadowy cabal of assassins who butchered his family means that he must fac...
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Empire Series Book 3: Fortress of Spears
Author: Anthony Riches
Author Anthony Riches
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesEmpire, Book 3
Duration 13h 46m
In the enthralling third volume of Empire, Anthony Riches takes the legions deep into north Britannia, where the survivors of the rebellion still hope for revenge. The Romans have vanquished the rebel alliance, leaving Calgus, Lord of the Northern Tribes, the prisoner of the chieftains he once led. But the new Roman leader will not let them rest. H...
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