Empire XV: Field of Blood

<BR/><B>Once more the Roman Empire has been torn apart by a war of imperial succession.</B><BR/><BR/> Following the Year of the Five Emperors, three are left in the field. A final bloody confrontation between two of them is inevitable as the ruthless <B>Septimius Severus </B>advances through Cappadocia and Cilicia on the heels of the retreating legions of the Emperor in the East, <B>Percennius Niger</B>.<BR/><BR/> Co-opted into Severus's legions are two veterans who had, after long service, longed for peace. <B>Gauis Rutilius Scaurus</B>, restored to legion commander, and his client, the Tribune <B>Marcus Laticlavius Aquila</B>. Unknown to all but a few, Marcus is an Emperor killer. Perhaps this fate beckons him again.<BR/><BR/> As Niger retreats towards the impregnable fortress of Antioch, thus threatening to extend the conflict for years, it falls to these two men to plan a series of daring raids to delay the enemy.<BR/><BR/><B>But it is not long before they are cornered on a climactic field of blood where one or other of the Imperial pretenders must be annihilated.</B><BR/>  <BR/>