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Marching With Caesar-Praetorian
Marching With Caesar-Praetorian
Marching With Caesar-Praetorian
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In Volume XVIII of the internationally bestselling Marching With Caesar series, Marching with Caesar-Praetorian, Gnaeus Volusenianus Pullus finally returns to Ubiorum after accomplishing his task of securing the Pullus family fortune, which had been endangered because of his time as a hostage in Britannia . Upon his arrival he is greeted with a mysteriously vague order to report to Germanicus Julius Caesar in Rome.
On his arrival, he is informed that, in exchange for the favors and protection that Germanicus has previously extended to Gnaeus, which Germanicus provided both in recognition of Gnaeus' father's service to himself and as part of Titus Porcinianus Pullus' final wishes, Gnaeus will be required by honor to repay this patronage and protection with service, a Roman tradition that extends back centuries.
That service comes in the form of Germanicus reassigning Gnaeus to the Praetorian Guard as the commander of the Second Century of the Second Praetorian Cohort, with the mission of gathering information on the actions of the Praetorian Prefect, Lucius Aelius Sejanus, whose power and influence with the Imperator Tiberius is growing at a rapid, and to Germanicus and several of the leading families of Rome, a dangerous rate.
As Gnaeus Pullus will learn, while the challenges and dangers are unlike anything Gnaeus has faced before on the battlefields of Germania, the hazards that duty as a Praetorian Guard brings, not just to himself but to his new family, as well as his clerk and friend Alexandros Pullus, are no less real, nor less deadly, and in Sejanus, Gnaeus will face an adversary whose ruthlessness makes him the most dangerous the Centurion has ever faced.

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PublisherR.W. Peake
Release dateNov 29, 2020
Marching With Caesar-Praetorian
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R.W. Peake

I am a 63 year old retired Infantry Marine, born and raised in Texas and currently living on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. I have been writing since my first novel, written at the age of 10, when my friends and yours truly fought off the Soviet hordes, who just happened to pick my block to launch their invasion. That was their big mistake.But like a lot of dreams, it got sidetracked until recently, when I decided to focus my passion on an era and subject that interested me a great deal. Like my characters in Ancient Rome, I have served as the pointy tip of the spear of our nation's policy, and it is with this perspective that I tell the story of Titus Pullus and his friends.Marching With Caesar-Birth of the 10th Legion was my first published novel, and is the first in a completed series that covers the career of Titus Pullus, his adopted son Gaius Porcinianus Pullus, grandson Titus Porcinianus Pullus, and his great-grandson Gnaeus Volusenianus Pullus. The most recent release is Volume XIX, Marching With Caesar-Catualda the Usurper.I also have a completed alternate history series, Caesar Ascending, that imagines a world in which Gaius Julius Caesar survives the Ides of March, embarks on his historical campaign against Parthian...then keeps going. Originally it's a bid to outstrip the Macedonian King Alexander by reaching the Ganges River, but evolves into a decade-long campaign that finds Caesar and his Legions marching to the end of the known world in the form of the mysterious Islands of Wa, modern-day Japan.Finally, in 2020, I began The Titus Chronicles, with Volume I titled Eagle and Wyvern, which tells the story of a descendant of Titus Pullus, (though he's unaware of any connection), named Titus of Cyssanbyrig, who at the age of fourteen answers the fyrd sounded by the Saxon King Alfred, marching with Alfred and his army to confront the Danish King Guthrum, culminating at the Battle of Edington. Blessed with the same prodigious size and strength as his ancestor, young Titus learns he is the recipient of a darker gift, and in his first battle earns the nickname The Berserker.The Titus Chronicles mark the first of an extended genealogy of the original Titus that will extend across the ages as the story of a line of men who have been born and bred for war, and are witnesses to some of the great historical events of the ages.

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