The Barbarian
Set during the twilight years of Rome's once all-powerful empire, The Barbarian is the action-packed, thrillingly authentic new historical novel from one of the genre's best.
‘Exhilarating reading . . . full of incident and adventure’ SCOTSMAN
‘Jackson has created another blockbuster historical fiction’ ASPECTS OF HISTORY
‘Rightly hailed as one of the best historical novelists writing today’ DAILY EXPRESS
AD 406. Abandoned by friends and hounded by enemies, Roman cavalry commander Marcus Flavius Victor and a small band of loyal warriors know that the time has come to leave an increasingly fractured Britannia.
Their journey takes them across the bleak, pirate-infested seas of the Mare Germanicum to Saxonia and on into the dark heart of barbarism. It seems the Britons' only salvation lies with…