Simon Scarrow
Author
Series
Publisher
Overlook Hardcover
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Trouble is brewing on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire. The troops are in a deplorable state, while the corrupt behavior of their senior officers threatens to undermine the army’s control of the region. To restore the competence of the men defending a vital fort, two experienced centurions are dispatched to Judea. On their arrival Macro and Cato discover that Bannus, a local tribesman, is fomenting rebellion amongst the followers of Jehoshua,...
Author
Series
Gladiator volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After Marcus Cornelius Primus's father is murdered and his mother kidnapped and enslaved, Marcus is forced to fight as a gladiator, enduring brutal training while he secretly plots to avenge his father's death and rescue his mother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Germany, 1940. The world holds its breath and hopes for peace. At home, the Nazi Party’s grip on power tightens. Reasons to fear the dark are growing . . . On a night in Berlin, during the most bitter winter in memory, SS doctor Manfred Schmesler is found in his study, dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The hurried and official version of the Reich is suicide. Schmesler’s widow doesn’t believe it. At the risk of running afoul...
Author
Series
Cato novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Language
English
6) Blackout
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
With his reputation already on the line for refusing to join the Nazi party, Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke investigates a series of brutal murders during the Third Reich's forced nightly blackouts during the brutally cold winter of 1939 in Berlin.