Casca the Persian #6 [Mass Market Paperback]

Barry Sadler (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam~mass (May 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0441092632
• ISBN-13: 978-0441092635
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,885,292 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ThOSE WHO LOVE THIS SERIES WILL ENJOY THIS ONE., June 6, 2009

By 

D. Blankenship (The Ozarks) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)    (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)    (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Casca the Persian #6 (Mass Market Paperback)

This work Sadler gave us has our Eternal Mercenary is Persia fighting for King Shapur II. As has been pointed out, this follows The Warlord (setting in china) and The Damned. If after you read the first Casca book, The Eternal Mercenary, these three really should be read in order as they comprise one continuous story. It is not absolutely necessary to do so, but more meaning can be found if the reader does so.

Being one of Sadler's early works, he is still meticulously researching this work and has not gotten sloppy in this one as he did in some of the later stories. The action here is great, political observations are astute and of course the Brotherhood is hot on his trail, although in this case, whether Casca likes it or not, they actually do him a favor...if you look at it a certain way.

For those of you not familiar with the Casca series; Barry Sadler tells the story of the Roman Soldier how actually thrusts his spear into the side of Christ thereby received an accidental drop of blood and is cursed by Christ to spend his time down through the ages being just what he is, a mercenary solder fighting in one war after the other. It is impossible for him to die, although he can feel the physical pain of death and does so numerous times, until the second coming of Christ. Now these are not religious books by any means, no, no..far from it. They are though well researched little novels telling the story of one man. The earlier works of Sadler are a cut above pulp fiction and are rather good. It is quite easy to get rather addicted to them. I do fear to tell you though that the last few novels in this series that were actually written by Sadler do not hold up and after his death there were novels written by others in this series, and to be quite frank, they were absolutely horrid. I must note though that the most recent writer who is attempting to breathe new life into the series is reported to be quite good. I have not read any of those works yet so cannot say myself, but he, the new author, is getting some very good review.

I do highly recommend this particular work...it is a good fun read and well worth the time.

Don Blankenship
The Ozarks