STONKING READ!

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This is the latest book in which we encounter the character Ballista, and it is a cracker.

In this book Ballista has 24 hours to reach the emperor and save both the emporer's life and his own. It a meeting with an informant, but the informant is dead and the meeting is a trap. There are too many to fight alone so he is forced to escape and the only escape might be as deadly as fighting his way out. From here the book takes you on a fabulous journey through Rome, where every corner turned can encounter a soldier or spy looking to arrest or kill him, and where no one can be trusted.

Ballista has to use all his skill as a soldier, a fighter and his training in stealth to evade those who are trying to capture him because to fail means death. Not only his own death but the death of the emperor and the death of his family.

This book draws you in and takes you on the journey with Ballista. You see the sights of ancient Rome, you smell the smell and you feel the desperation and intensity of his journey through the worst journey of his life.

This book is a must read a journey that like Ballista you have to take. Every page has enough exitment and intrigue to make you want to keep reading. My only issue with this book was that it had to end. Harry Sidebottom has done it again and given us yet another amazing read.