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Para Bellum

By: S.J.A. Turney
Narrated by: Robin Laing
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Summary

A powerful new audiobook set in the fourth-century Roman Empire by critically acclaimed historical novelist Simon Turney, Para Bellum will delight fans of Scarrow, Kane and Cornwell.

AD 381. Five years have gone by since a Roman governor ordered the deaths of a Gothic king and his attendants at a feast in their honor. This disastrous act led to warfare in the Roman Empire and the death of the Emperor Valens.

The Empire is now at peace, but the powerful brother of the murdered king has sworn revenge on the regicides, and will not rest until they are hunted down. For the eight legionaries who carried out the killings, the bloodshed is only just beginning.

Flavius Focalis is one of those legionaries. After narrowly surviving an attempt on his life, Focalis seeks to warn his former comrades, for he knows their enemy is implacable. So begins a deadly game of cat-and-mouse across the Empire, with far more than eight lives at stake. For war is coming—and the only question is: do they die now, or die later?

©2023 S J A Turney (P)2023 W. F. Howes Ltd
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it grew on me.

i wasnt overly keen on the narrator to start with but i got used to his pronunciation, i felt he made the characters a bit too polished at times but i got used to it.
the story wasnt one of Turneys best in my book a bit roman 007 in places, but again it grew on me. The book probably will not get a second listen too but im not sorry i listened once.

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The drive of the narrative.It did not flag for a second.

A totally absorbing tale narrated with skill and balance.One of the best historical audio books I have listened to.

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hard to follow and inconsistent

Not Turney's best work. The narrative has inconsistencies you can drive a bus through and the narrator voices every character as an Ent from LOTR.

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