The Barbarian : Bantam Press : 9781787634824 : 1787634825 : 08 Jun 2023 : Treacheries, betrayals and bloody confrontations during the desperate twilight years of Rome's once all-powerful empire in an action-packed and resoundingly authentic new Roman historical novel from a writer consistently acclaimed as one of the genre's very best. AD 406. Abandoned by his friends and hounded by his enemies, Roman cavalry commander Marcus Flavius Victor is forced to flee an increasingly fractured Britannia with a small band of loyal warriors. His journey takes him north through the stormy, pirate-infested seas of the Mare Germanicum to Saxonia, where his son Brenus has languished as a slave for six long years. Marcus is able to rescue him but at a terrible cost. Further disaster threatens when his escape route is blocked, leaving the Britons trapped in a strange land with enemies seemingly at every turn. Their only salvation seems to lie with Marcus's old comrade, General Stilicho, beyond the far