The Amber Road

By: Harry Sidebottom

Narrated by: Nick Boulton

AD 264 - The Roman Empire is torn in two. The latest blazing novel in the Warrior of Rome series.

The western provinces - Gaul, Spain and Britain - have been seized; to the east, on the plains of northern Italy, armies muster. War is coming. Everyone must choose a side. Ballista must journey the Amber Road to the far north to Hyperborea, back to his original home and the people of his birth. Yet not all welcome Ballista’s return. Does treachery pose the greatest danger?

©2013 Ballista Warrior of Rome Ltd (P)2013 W F Howes Ltd

Critic reviews

"Amazing, spectacular. Wonderful fight scenes, deft literary touches and salty dialogue" ( Daily Telegraph)

"Praise for the author: ‘Sidebottom's prose blazes with searing scholarship" ( The Times)

Perhaps a book too far ...

I have loved this series of novels. You really can't fault Dr. Sidebottom's depth of knowledge in this field and he shows that knowledge without pretence or condecension to his audience. That said I can't help but feel that this - and even the 5th book - were instalments too far and that the saga should have ended in the Caucasas or in a different manner entirely - perhaps Balista and familia could simply have gone home. There was a feelng of tieing up loose ends here when such neat finishing hasn't been required previously. Still happy to have heard this instalment but not up to the standard of the first 4.