Rome's Vengeance In the year A.D. 9, three Roman Legions under Quintilius Varus were betrayed by the Germanic war chief, Arminius, and destroyed in the forest known as Teutoburger Wald. Six years later Rome is finally ready to unleash Her vengeance on the barbarians. The Emperor Tiberius has sent his adopted son, Germanicus Caesar, into Germania with an army of forty-thousand legionaries. The come not on a mission of conquest, but one of annihilation. With them is a young legionary named Artorius. For him the war is a personal vendetta; a chance to avenge his brother, who was killed in Teutoburger Wald. In Germania Arminius knows the Romans are coming. He realizes that the only way to fight the legions is through deceit, cunning, and plenty of well-placed brute force. In truth he is leery of Germanicus, knowing that he was trained to be a master of war by the Emperor himself. The entire Roman Empire held its collective breath as Germanicus and Arminius faced each other in what would become the most brutal and savage campaign the world had seen in a generation; a campaign that could only end in a holocaust of fire and blood.
James Mace is a historical novelist and screenplay writer. He has written four books so far in the series "Soldier of Rome - The Artorian Chronicles". In addition, he has written short novella based around the series, "Centurion Valens and the Empress of Death". He also co-wrote the critically acclaimed screenplay, "The Evil That Men Do".
James is expecting the fifth Artorian book, "Soldier of Rome: Judea", to be out in the spring of 2012. At the same time he will be publishing his first non-Roman work, a novella entitled "Forlorn Hope: The Storming of Badajoz".
