Character guide · 9 books · 2008 to 2016

Harry Sidebottom

Thriller and suspense Historical fictionPolitical thriller Military historical Ancient world

Harry Sidebottom, an Oxford historian of the ancient world, writes the Warrior of Rome novels about Ballista, a northern barbarian hostage who becomes a Roman general in the chaotic third century AD.

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