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    Marching With Caesar-Catualda the Usurper
    Marching With Caesar-Catualda the Usurper
    Marching With Caesar-Catualda the Usurper
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    Marching With Caesar-Catualda the Usurper

    By R.W. Peake

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    When Gnaeus Pullus was released from the Praetorian Guard to return to the 1st Legion, he was certain that his days of dealing in the political intrigue created by his social superiors was over. He learns differently even before he and the 1st return to their home base in Ubiorum, when a random event occurs in the form of a man of his new command committing murder in a taverna in Mogontiacum.

    As The Fates decree, the victim is a member of the 5th Alaudae, a Legion with which Pullus has his own history, and in this incident the Primus Pilus of the Legion, Quintus Nerva, sees an opportunity for vengeance against Pullus for his savage beating and the subsequent suicide of one of his Centurions. Nerva’s desire for revenge happens to coincide with a larger plot to subvert a plan, originally concocted by Tiberius’ natural son Drusus Julius Caesar, to replace the longtime King of the Marcomanni Maroboduus, with an usurper by the name of Catualda, a nobleman of the neighboring Gotones tribe.

    The subversion of Drusus’ idea is facilitated by the acting Quaestor Gaius Visellius Varro, beginning with a false confession extracted under torture by Varro’s henchman Canus from Pullus’ Legionary, that Pullus was aware that his man intended to commit murder, giving Varro the leverage he needs to force Pullus to participate in Varro’s subversion of Drusus’ plan. This version ostensibly calls for Pullus, under the watchful eye of Canus, to escort a Gotones nobleman hundreds of miles across Germania to meet with Catualda and inform him that Rome has agreed to place Catualda on the Marcomanni throne, but as Pullus and his scribe Alex, who refuses to be left behind, quickly learn, nothing about this mission is as it seems. Not only is that “nobleman” Catualda himself, but Roman assistance comes in the form of a full Roman Legion, none other than Nerva’s Alaudae, who have crossed the Rhenus and are waiting for Pullus and his party to join them.

    Together, but in an atmosphere of mutual suspicion and distrust, this small force must cross hundreds of miles, through the lands of tribes that had recently been implacable foes of Rome, to reach the Marcomanni capital of Casurgis, a hilltop citadel just south of modern-day Prague, where a weakened but still dangerous foe in Maroboduus awaits. Over the course of the ensuing events, Pullus learns that nothing is as it seems, that the reach of Rome extends hundreds of miles beyond the Rhenus, that men he considered enemies are not, and that Rome is making a mistake in their choice of Catualda the Usurper as the new King of the Marcomanni.

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    PublisherR.W. Peake
    Release dateApr 29, 2022
    ISBN9781941226544
    Marching With Caesar-Catualda the Usurper
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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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      The book was interesting, delving into that other side of Romes foreign policy that was the establishment of client kings over complete conquest.

      That being said, the book wasn't as exiciting as others simply due to being a lesser known historical event. The Pullus family, being head counters and men of the legions, derive their experiences mostly from Romes campaigns. We all know of the Gallic Wars, Caesars civil war, the conflict between Antony and Octavian, the Great Illyrian Revolt, Teutoberg and the campaigns in Germania to avenge Varus, etc.

      But with this particularly turbulent period over, minus a few revolts here and there and Caligula attacking the English Channel, nothing happens, militarily at least, for over 20 years until Claudius invades Britain. That is something I, and many others I'd imagine, very much look forward to seeing considering we may see both Gnaeus and Titus serving together and perhaps gaining favor with future-emperor Vespasian, something alluded to in the Titus Chronicles.

      Pullus family, stay away from Rome! Those Julio-Claudians are nuts!

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