Publisher's Synopsis
ROMA INVICTA EST
It is during the most dramatic moments when the courage of an Empire reemerges
In 451 AD Rome is harassed by dozens of barbarian tribes and threatened by the hosts of Attila, God's scourge. The Roman general Aetius, allied with the Visigoths and other foederati, confront the King of the Huns on an immense plain in the North of Gaul. Two formidable armies fight in those lands, and also two ways of understanding civilization, culture and religion: the world of light represented by Rome, against the world of darkness and the unknown, Attila's world.
Guided by Salvio Adriano, a young recruit from Tarraco who became an involuntary protagonist in the transcendental battle, the reader will witness the ruthless decay that devastates an Empire that is dying but refuses to succumb to the constant barbarian onslaughts.
Salvio Adriano, accompanied by his friends Sextilius Arcadius and Lucius Calerus, will discover the meaning of friendship, loyalty and honor in a turbulent time impregnated with the infamy of corruption, greed and betrayal. Meanwhile, the irruption of an old druid named Lughdyr and, especially, of Alana, an enigmatic and beautiful Suevian, will mark the destiny of Salvio Adriano wrapping his life in a halo of magic and mystery.
Written in a fast-paced and attractive way, Roma invicta est takes us back to the last years of the Roman Empire, rigorously describing the events that favored the invasion of Hispania by the Goth peoples and, later, the fall of Rome.
For passionate readers of historical novels and writers like Simon Scarrow, Ken Follet or Bernard Cornwell.
