Britannia, AD 60. Rome believes it has subdued the island. It is wrong. 

The humiliation inflicted on Boudica, queen of the Iceni, ignites a fire that no one will be able to extinguish. The tribes rise with unprecedented ferocity. Roman cities burn. Men, women, and children are slaughtered. Britannia rises to erase Rome from its land. 

Amid the chaos of the revolt, Marcus Quintinius Aquila, a centurion of the Twentieth Legion discharged because of war wounds, is swept away by events. Betrayed by the woman he loved, wounded and hunted, he has every reason to flee. Instead, he chooses to fight again. Because a legionary can lose everything, except himself. 

He gathers a handful of comrades, men as broken as he is, and together they march toward Manduessedum. Before them stands an enemy army ten times their size, driven not only by hatred for Rome, but by an unquenchable hunger for revenge and freedom.

Marcus Quintinius Aquila is not an invincible hero. He is the man who endures. Crushed by fate, he keeps fighting when all hope is already lost. His blood-stained cloak will be raised among the ranks in the final battle against the tribes led by Boudica, not just a queen, but a wounded mother willing to sacrifice everything rather than submit. 

The Legion’s Revenge is an epic and brutal novel about the price of freedom and the most savage face of war. A story where there are no innocents, where life is fragile, and History is written in the blood of men and women ready to die rather than surrender.

Here, no one fights for glory. Here, they fight because there is no alternative.

Italian edition
Newton Compton – February 2015 – 432 pages
ISBN: 978-88-466-5599-6