Hodder & Stoughton Storm of War Ричес Энтони

Мятежники побеждены. Кальг, властитель северных племён, стал узником вождей, которыми не так давно командовал. Ну а лидер римлян строит амбициозные планы по захвату крепости варваров, их Твердыни Копий • Марк Аквила, охваченный жаждой мести за смерть одного из своих лучших друзей, выезжает на север с кавалерией. Он уверен, что легенда центуриона по-прежнему защищает его • Но император Рима уже отправил своих людей за его головой. Эти безжалостные убийцы знают настоящее имя Марка. Им слишком многое известно о его друзьях. И он опережает их всего лишь на каких-то несколько дней • "Твердыня тысячи копий" - третья часть цикла Энтони Ричеса "Империя" • Книга на английском языке • The Romans have vanquished the rebel alliance; Calgus, Lord of the Northern Tribes, is the prisoner of the chieftains he once led

Thrilling, authentic and action-packed, this novel introduces soldier hero Marcus Valerius: a centurion stationed on Hadrian's Wall in the second century during a revolt against the Roman Empire • Marcus Valerius Aquila has scarcely landed in Britannia when he has to run for his life - condemned to dishonorable death by power-crazed emperor Commodus. The plan is to take a new name, serve in an obscure regiment on Hadrian's Wall and lie low until he can hope for justice. Then a rebel army sweeps down from the wastes north of the Wall, and Marcus has to prove he's hard enough to lead a century in the front line of a brutal, violent war

Едва тунгрийцы вернулись в Рим, как им была поручена новая миссия, кординально отличавшаяся от их отчаянных подвигов в Парфии • Получив приказ переправиться через реку Рен в варварскую Германию и захватить племенную жрицу, которая может быть самым опасным человеком на северной границе империи, они вскоре становятся жертвами махинаций старого врага, который не остановится ни перед чем, чтобы опередить их и саботировать их планы, и даже ступит на восточный берег реки • Но после того, как они нейтрализуют своего римского врага, они столкнутся с еще более серьезной проблемой • Имея в своих руках два величайших сокровища племени Бруктери, они должны вернуть себе римскую территорию, пересечь неумолимую пустыню, которая была кладбищем стратегии римской имперской двести лет назад

Адрианова стена спасена, но новый римский наместник в Британии должен подавить восстание северных племён, чтобы не потерять провинцию. Кальг, кровожадный вождь мятежников, предаёт южные земли огню и мечу, и остановить его будет непросто • Для Марка, ныне просто центуриона Первой Тунгрийской когорты, эта кампания опасна вдвойне. Ведь в Британию прибывают подкрепления, и его окружают офицеры, у которых нет причин защищать его от прихвостней императора. В такой обстановке неосторожно брошенное слово и вражеское копьё одинаково смертельны • Мало того, враги уже дышат Марку в спину. Пока он тренирует две центурии сирийских лучников, чтобы отбить нападение варваров и начать контрнаступление, новый префект Второй Тунгрийской узнал его тайну. Только чудо может спасти Марка и его людей от смерти и позора

Britannia has been subdued - and an epic new chapter in Marcus Valerius Aquila's life begins • Posted to the Second Tungrian auxiliary cohort's original home in Germania Inferior, Marcus finds a very different world from the turbulent British frontier - but one with its own dangers. Tungrorum, the center of a once-prosperous farming province, a city already brought low by the ravages of the eastern plague that has swept through the empire, is now threatened by an outbreak of brutally violent robbery. A bandit chieftain called Obduro, his identity always hidden behind an iron cavalry helmet, is robbing and killing with impunity • His sword - sharper, stronger and more deadly than any known to the Roman army - is the lethal symbol of his unstoppable power

Vietnam veteran Michael Lander wants the country that made him suffer to suffer in return • Al-Fatah operative Dahlia Iyad wants to help him turn his bold plan into devastating reality • David Kabakov, Mossad's most dedicated soldier, is determined to uncover the plot before it's too late • All he and the FBI know is that it will be apocalyptic • They don't know about the 1,200 pounds of explosives on their way to the states • The largest, deadliest bomb on American soil • That it will detonate in front of millions at the biggest sporting event of the season • The day of horror is nearly here • Black Sunday

1912-1940 • A generation fallen • A country that will never be the same again • Nowhere in England avoids the searing loss of young men during the First World War and the remote Devon village of Shallowford is no exception. Many never return and the lives of those who do come back are changed forever • Paul Craddock must try to rebuild the estate and, with more difficulty, the bonds broken between the people who belong there. It is a time of huge social change and there are challenges in peace as hard to surmount as those of war. And before they are met, Germany once again threatens the stability of Europe and a way of life so hard won

It is the dawn of a new world • Henry Tudor has vanquished Richard III and claimed the throne of England, taking possession of a secret map. At the glittering court of the Medici in Florence, Lorenzo the Magnificent, ruler of the republic and head of the mysterious Academy, is engaged in a dangerous game of power with the Vatican. In Spain, the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella and Ferdinand, have declared a crusade against Islam, forcing the Moors from Granada. Europe stands upon the brink of war, at the edge of a discovery that will change everything • Jack Wynter is clinging to the wreckage of the life he dreamed of living, his father's execution by Richard III destroying his hope of overcoming his status as an illegitimate son. The map entrusted to him by his father is gone, stolen by his hated half-brother, Harry Vaughan

In a moment of nerve-shredding suspense that will affect many thousands of lives, a handful of men and women converge on a barren stretch of Yemeni desert • The mission is to take down a high-value player in the war against Al-Qaeda • It is the brainchild of an old, fat fool called Jericho. In his striped cricket blazer, never without a G-and-T, he is a sweating figure of fun among the ex-pats across the border in Muscat • Yet perhaps he is not quite as old, or foolish, or even fat as he appears • Nor as harmless • Welcome to Jericho's War: its weaponry is state-of-the-art, its brutality as timeless as the desert

1483: A secret war is born • Jack Wynter is trapped in sun-baked Seville, sent there by his father with a locked box he's been told to guard with his life. A vital task, or just a ruse to get an illegitimate son out of the country? • But, then, when his father is arrested for treason, Jack finds himself at the heart of a deadly conspiracy • Seeking answers to the mystery he has inherited, Jack returns to England, where his half-brother, Harry, broods bitterly over their father's apparent preference for a bastard son and young Prince Edward is due to become king... unless his uncle, Richard of Gloucester, makes a play for the throne • Jack Wynter is coming home, to a realm of danger, intrigue and war. Somehow, he is connected to a secret that stretches across Europe, and beyond

From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a young woman sets out to find vengeance for her lost family. That same spring, from the wealthy city-state of Seressa, famous for its canals and lagoon, come two very different people: a young artist traveling to the dangerous east to paint the Grand Khalif at his request-and possibly to do more-and a beautiful oman, posing as a doctor's wife in her role of a spy • The trading ship that carries them is commanded by the clever younger son of a merchant family -with ambivalence about the life he's been born to live. And farther east a boy trains to become a soldier in the elite infantry of the khalif-to win glory in the war everyone knows is coming • As these lives entwine, their fates-and those of many others-will hang in the balance, when the khalif sends out his massive army to take the great fortress that is the gateway to the western world