Wounds of Honour: Empire I - The gripping and unforgettable first book in the bestselling Empire series

''A master of the genre'' The Times

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.