Knight of Rome (Parts #1-2) by Malcolm Davies
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Overview: About the author: "I was born in Plymouth Devon, England where the "Mayflower Steps", a short flight of stone stairs leading down to the water can still be seen. It was down these the Pilgrim fathers walked to take ship for America."
"I worked mostly as an insurance claims-investigator in England, Southern Africa and the Middle-East, keeping it together between offers of bribes (biggest, $500,000) and threats ("We know where you live…."). I am proud to have taken nothing and suffered only one physical attack."
"All the time I have been writing – one act stage plays, radio plays and magazine articles before turning my hand to full length novels."
"I now live in a village in Western France where the biggest event in the last twelve years has been the robbery of the local Tabac."
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Historical > Rome > Military
Knight of Rome Part 1:
Augustus rules the Roman Empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Red Sea and encircling the Mediterranean. No nation can stand against his legions but even the Empire has its limits. The brooding forests across the Rhine hold warriors who will not submit and the Suevi are the mightiest of them. With only their hatred of each other in common, the Romans and the Germans cross the river to raid and slaughter but neither of them has the force to take the other’s territory and hold it. This does not prevent them trying. Otto of the Suevi, son of the Chieftain and war counsellor Badurad, lives freely among the woods and glades on the far side of the river, hoping to live the same life as his father and become a respected warrior in his turn but that is not to be. He visits a wise woman with his father and her shocking, prophetic vision of his future sets him on a different path than he could never have imagined. Fate is not to be defied so Otto accepts what she has told him as absolute truth and lets it guide him through blood and fire to his personal destiny far from his own people.
Knight of Rome Part 2:
Now a citizen and enrolled in the Equestrian order – a Knight of Rome – Otto Longius returns to his legion as a cavalry officer. It is a great achievement but comes at great cost. His ties of comradeship with his oldest friend, Tribune Lucius “Boxer” Longius, are beginning to weaken. His rank in the legion allows him to take his full part in councils of war but will anyone listen to him? The question for Otto Longius is, has he become a true Roman and will he be accepted on an equal footing with his brother officers? An uprising by the Marcomanni of eastern Germany sets the Rhine borders alight. A prolonged siege and a mission for the Emperor Augustus test his courage and loyalty to the limit. Then a chance meeting throws his belief in his own fate into doubt. Otto must confront a formidable enemy and decide once and for all on his true path.
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