BEASTS FROM THE DARK

Ex-gladiators Drust and Kag are in the Alps, battered, bruised and fighting for their lives. On the hunt for a rogue Roman officer, something goes terribly wrong and they are left stranded in the mountains, their escape route cut off. Only then does the true danger of their mission reveal itself. Caught in the crossfire of the mountain tribes, and the vicious power politics of Rome, they must use all their cunning to save themselves from death's icy clutches. Set in the year AD225 during the reign of the boy Emperor Severus Alexander, the story starts off in the Province of Rhaetia where the former gladiators including Drust's wife Praeclarum find themselves ambushed and have to travel through the 'Dark' populated with thick forests and wild tribes before they are captured by the renegade General. They escape for more action-packed and intriguing adventure in what is in fact the final book of a trilogy, the most exciting and can be read as a stand-alone. With useful glossary and historical note. 359pp, paperback.