360 AD: A Roman legion is trapped and surrounded in the blistering Persian desert... and a great saga begins.
360 AD: A Roman legion is trapped and surrounded in the blistering Persian desert... and a great saga begins.
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Excerpt
Falco listened to the playful babble of the water, and every so often he caught a trace of the damp-silt scent rising from the river’s edge. A glorious contrast to the desert’s dry, dusty odour. These simple things took him away from this place, from the dust and sand, from the chimeral infinity on every horizon, from all the warnings about what was out there and coming this way. For a glorious moment he sank into the welcome halls of memory, his hawk-like face spreading in a half-smile.
Arius noticed and gave him an arch look. ‘What’s that strange thing on your face? You’ve done nothing but sulk for the last month!’
‘I’m thinking about home,’ Falco said with a fond sigh. ‘About the last time I took my boy, Pavo, fishing.’ There was something about the word last that caused the conversation to fall into a short lull.
Professional Reviews
Historical Writers' Association Magazine
"Eagles in the Desert was intense and ominous - a fast paced, gory battle tale centred around fathers and sons."
