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Legionary

Legionary, Book 1

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Legionary

By: Gordon Doherty
Narrated by: Adrian Hobart
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The Roman Empire is crumbling, and a shadow looms in the east....

376 AD: The Eastern Roman Empire is alone against the tide of barbarians swelling on her borders. Emperor Valens juggles the paltry border defenses to stave off invasion from the Goths north of the Danube. Meanwhile, in Constantinople, a pact between faith and politics spawns a lethal plot that will bring the dark and massive hordes from the east crashing down on these struggling borders. The fates conspire to see Numerius Vitellius Pavo, enslaved as a boy after the death of his legionary father, thrust into the limitanei, the border legions, just before they are sent to recapture the long-lost eastern Kingdom of Bosporus. He is cast into the jaws of this plot, so twisted that the survival of the entire Roman world hangs in the balance....

©2011 Gordon Doherty (P)2011 W. F. Howes Ltd Ancient Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Military Mystery Thriller & Suspense War & Military Fiction
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book, great story and characters. An interesting time period covered and anyone who enjoys Rome based books will be well satisfied. Narrator was generally pretty good though does occasionally leave strange pauses that can be a bit jarring

Great story

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Got as far as chapter 7 and couldn't bear it any longer. Pauses in all the wrong places making it sound like its coming from a ten year old learning to read.
I'm sorry to offend but there it is. Buy the books to read as I'm sure the story will be a good one. Mick the very disappointed Hick.🫤

Rubbish narration; avoid at all costs.

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This novel is the first by Doherty that I did not enjoy. The characters were poorly drawn, the dialogue weak and the story lines contrived. Some battle scenes saved it from being abandoned.

Wide ranging, two stories not well interwoven

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