| Edition |
First Edition. |
| Description |
316 pages : map ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
"From the bestselling author of Gates of Fire comes an historical epic about the early years of the Roman Empire. A Man at Arms is a Western set in Jerusalem and the Sinai desert in the first century AD, a few years after the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. The villains are the Romans. They're in pursuit of a courier bearing an incendiary letter from Paul the Apostle. For agents of Rome, this letter represents an existential threat that will propagate a new faith and a new form of resistance among those who suffer under the heel of the Roman Empire. The Romans hire a mercenary named Telamon, formerly of the Roman Tenth Legion, to interdict and destroy the letter. Telamon only fights for money. He's been guaranteed a rich reward, but he must not fail because the punishment for failure is death by crucifixion"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Mercenary troops -- Fiction.
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Palestine -- History -- To 70 A.D. -- Fiction.
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Rome -- History -- Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D. -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Novels.
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| ISBN |
9780393540970 (hardcover) |
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0393540979 (hardcover) |
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