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To preserve his village, a young man from the Sabine tribe must survive the cutthroat politics of the city of Rome. "Gripping and graphic... Davis's narrative strengths lie in portraying the horrifying realities of war and in vivifying the ancient setting..." (Publishers Weekly).
Rome, 107 BC. Quintus Sertorius has just lost his father and he may soon lose his home. When his native Nursia is stripped of its political status, he leaves his family to secure assistance and protection from Gnaeus Servilius Caepio, head of one of Rome's powerful consular families, and the hereditary patron of Setorius' tribe. During his time in Rome, Sertorius has an inside look at Rome's murderous politics, and decides it is no place for an honest man. Instead he joins the Legions, where he finds his brother Titus and his childhood friend Lucius are partisans of the plebian General Gaius Marius, famous for his reorganization of Rome's Legions and seven terms as consul, but despised by the old patrician families who have ruled the Republic unchallenged for many generations. As Sertorius adapts to military life he finds to his sorrow that politics can also invade the battlefield with bitter and deadly results.
The author, born and raised in Tennessee, is an avid student of Roman history, an entrepreneur, and a proud members of the U.S. Army Reserves. This is the first in a planned series of books retelling the story of Quintus Sertorius, (born c. 123 BC, Nursia, Sabini—died 72 BC, Huesca, Spain). Sertorius was a Roman statesman and military commander. He fought in four major wars; the Cimbrian War, the Social War, the Second Civil War and the Sertorian War. During the Second Civil War he was part of the popular faction of Cinna and Marius and upon their deaths he was outlawed. Defying the Roman Senate, Sertorius became the independent ruler of most of Spain for eight years.
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