Altar of Blood (Empire)

Altar of Blood (Empire) by Riches, Anthony. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781444732016.

The ninth novel in the thrilling Empire sequence leads Centurion Marcus Aquila and the Tungrians to the battlefield that was one of Romes most disastrous defeats. The Tungrians have no sooner returned to Rome than they find themselves tasked with a very different mission to their desperate exploits in Parthia. Ordered to cross the river Rhenus into barbarian Germany and capture a tribal priestess who may be the most dangerous person on the empires northern border, they are soon subject to the machinations of an old enemy who will stop at nothing to sabotage their plans before they have even set foot on the rivers eastern bank. But after their Roman enemy is neutralised they face a challenge greater still. With two of the Bructeri tribes greatest treasures in their hands they must regain Roman territory by crossing the unforgiving wilderness that was the graveyard of Roman imperial strategy two hundred years before. And capture by the Bructeris vengeful chieftain and his warband can only end in one way - a horrific sacrificial death on the tribes altar of blood.