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Where Gods Were Born by Swyft, Nick is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Lost Legionary – Book 174 BC. Pompey Magnus holds sway in Rome.Caesar is beginning to make a name for himself, and in a few short months Crassus will face the slave army of Spartacus.In the east, Lucius Licinius Lucullus is conducting a war on Rome's behalf against the renegade King Mithradates.It is into this theatre that our hero Petro, a young soldier from a seaside town on the Neapolitan coast, finds himself, and he is in trouble almost from day one.He dreams of returning to his girl back home covered in glory, but on his first expedition his patrol are attacked by a tribe of nomads, and all are killed while he flees for his life.He falls into a ravine and is found half-conscious the next day by the women of the tribe as they go to wash their clothes in the river at the bottom of his ravine.It is only because the chief's daughter takes pity on him, and the mysterious prophesy of their tribal shaman, that he survives.Her friend Chione, whose husband was killed by the Romans, would have murdered him on the spot and takes every opportunity she can to exact her vengeance.Now his life is on a knife-edge, but he learns their language, their horse-riding skills and their culture a

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Swyft, Nick
Publisher
Lume Books
Published
2016
Language
EN
Category
work of fiction

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