THE FORGOTTEN LEGION.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price-cip to dw/dj.Glossy laminated,colour illustrated dw/dj,with white,red+white and grey lettering; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.The majority of creasing to top edges ,and both panels are with scoring and indentations but boards beneath unaffected.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight, clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread? Bright,clean,generally sharp-cornered - apart from front upper corner which is minimally bumped, publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettes to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain maroon endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-422pp [paginated] includes prologue,30 chapters and author's note to rear.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,prose extract from Ovid,(Fasti) with b/w Eurasia 1st Century B.C map to verso,and historical background to story.
Author's debut novel,uncommon with a low print run,and highly sought after.
Against overwhelming odds,the tattered remnants of a once-huge Roman army fight for their lives at the very edge of the known world.
Among them are three men whose friendship has been forged in the bloody crucible of a hopeless war and the bitter knowledge that they are bound forever in servitude to the Republic.
Tarquinius is an Etruscan,a warrior and soothsayer,born enemy of Rome,but doomed to fight for the Republic in the Forgotten Legion.
Brennus is a Gaul: the Romans killed his entire family.He rises to become one of the most famous and feared gladiators of his day - and mentor to the boy slave,Romulus, who dreams night and day of escape and revenge.
Romulus and Fabiola are twins,born into slavery after their mother is raped by a drunken nobleman.At thirteen years old they are sold: Romulus to gladiator school, Fabiola into prostitution,where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome.
The lives of these four characters are bound and interwoven in this marvellous story,which begins in a Rome riven by corruption,violence and political enmities,but ends far away,at the very border of the known world,where Romulus, Brennus and Tarquinius find themselves fighting against the Parthians and impossible odds.
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