General Stilicho kept his gaze on the unfolding scene below. "Shall I give the order, sir?" said the younger of the two. On another hill to the south, commanding a fine view of the retreat, and surveying the scene with some satisfaction, sat two Roman officers on horse back, resplendent in breastplates of bronze and plumes of scarlet. Slowly, uncertainly, and with a defeated air, they began to break camp and make for the hills to the north. Around the walls of the grim frontier town of Florentia, the exhausted remnants of Rhadagastus’s barbarian army were awakening, to find themselves no longer surrounded by the implacable legionaries of Rome. One who wanted to destroy the world, and one who fought one final battle to save it.A bright dawn was breaking over the sun-baked plains beside the River Arno. It is a story of two men: Attila the Hun and Aetius the Roman. Thus begins a saga of warfare, lust and power which brings the whole of the Christian world to its knees - and ends in blood on the fields of France. His name is Attila - 'the Scourge of God'. For these so called 'Huns' now have a new leader. A strange nation of primitive horse warriors has been striking terror upon border peoples for fifty years.
The huge barbarian tribes of the Vandals and Visigoths sense that their time is upon them.īut, unbeknown to all of these great players, a new power is rising in the East. Already divided into two, the Imperium is looking dangerously vulnerable to her European rivals. The dawn of the fifth century AD, and the Roman Empire totters on the edge of the abyss. A stunning historical novel - the first in an epic trilogy about the rise and fall of one of history's greatest villains.
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