This book contains violent and/or sexual content.
AuthorAnthony Riches
NarratorSaul Reichlin
SeriesEmpire, Book 1
Duration13h 32m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Historical Novels
PublisherHodder & Stoughton
VersionUnabridged
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 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.
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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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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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 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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Author: Anthony Riches
Author Anthony Riches
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesEmpire, Book 2
Duration 13h 44m
The Battle of the Lost Eagle saved Hadrian's Wall, but the new Roman governor of Britannia must stamp out the rebellion of the northern tribes or risk losing the province. Rampaging south with sword and flame under the command of their murderous chieftain Calgus, they have stretched his forces to the limit. For Marcus - now simply Centurion Corvus...
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Author: Anthony Riches
Author Anthony Riches
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesEmpire, Book 11
Duration 12h 51m
After saving the emperor's life in Rome, Marcus and his comrades have been sent across the sea to the wealthy, corrupt Greek metropolis of Aegyptus, Alexandria. An unknown enemy has slaughtered the garrison of the Empire's last outpost before its border with the mysterious kingdom of Kush. Caravans can no longer reach the crucial Red Sea port of Be...
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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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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 4
Duration 13h 37m
Britannia has been subdued - and an epic new chapter in Marcus Valerius Aquila's life begins. The murderous Roman agents who nearly captured Marcus have been defeated by his friends. But in order to protect those very friends from the wrath of the emperor, he must leave the province that has been giving him shelter. As Marcus Tribulus Corvus, centu...
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