06-24-2013, 05:17 AM
I'd like to mention that my latest novel:
The Janus Eagle
is now available at Amazon.
"Far in the east of Rome, along the crumbling borders of the Tigris and the Euphrates, an old legion rots, long since abandoned and neglected by the emperor Valens and his advisors. This is the ancient Twelfth Legion, the Fulminata, the legion that once Thundered, raised by Caesar himself over four hundred years ago. A chance discovery in a dig propels an archaeologist to discover the truth of this legion, now long since forgotten, and its final doom. What he gradually uncovers is a story of betrayal and deception under a strange standard known as the Janus Eagle.
This is the first book in a trilogy which tells the story of this Janus Eagle and its final fate deep in the mountains of Armenia, a land riven now with discord and strife. A fate in which the men of this legion are finally forced to confront a shame and a stain over three hundred years old - men who have long since forgotten the thunder that was once the legion’s blood . . ."
This novel is the first of three books. Book Two - The Fortress of Desolation - wil follow in about six months and the final Book - The House of Caves - six months after that. The novel, as with The Nowhere Legion, contains a lot of research from the period (367AD onwards) and as with the first novel this forum has been invaluable to me in deepening that research over the last eight months while I was writing it. If anyone with an interest in this period would like a free PDF version, please PM me and I will send one over.
The Janus Eagle
is now available at Amazon.
"Far in the east of Rome, along the crumbling borders of the Tigris and the Euphrates, an old legion rots, long since abandoned and neglected by the emperor Valens and his advisors. This is the ancient Twelfth Legion, the Fulminata, the legion that once Thundered, raised by Caesar himself over four hundred years ago. A chance discovery in a dig propels an archaeologist to discover the truth of this legion, now long since forgotten, and its final doom. What he gradually uncovers is a story of betrayal and deception under a strange standard known as the Janus Eagle.
This is the first book in a trilogy which tells the story of this Janus Eagle and its final fate deep in the mountains of Armenia, a land riven now with discord and strife. A fate in which the men of this legion are finally forced to confront a shame and a stain over three hundred years old - men who have long since forgotten the thunder that was once the legion’s blood . . ."
This novel is the first of three books. Book Two - The Fortress of Desolation - wil follow in about six months and the final Book - The House of Caves - six months after that. The novel, as with The Nowhere Legion, contains a lot of research from the period (367AD onwards) and as with the first novel this forum has been invaluable to me in deepening that research over the last eight months while I was writing it. If anyone with an interest in this period would like a free PDF version, please PM me and I will send one over.
Francis Hagan
The Barcarii
The Barcarii
