Anthony Riches Books in Order

Set after the Year of the Five Emperors, Marcus and Scaurus serve in Severus's army as it chases Pescennius Niger towards Antioch, launching risky raids and skirmishes until a final, savage battle on a literal field of blood chooses Rome's next ruler.

As Severus drives east against his rival, Marcus and his patron are ordered to unmask a spy ring in newly conquered territory, then stand in the front line when battle hardened legions loyal to the losing emperor hurl themselves into a decisive showdown.

In the turmoil following Emperor Pertinax's murder, Marcus and Scaurus are pressed into Septimius Severus's service, leading a hard marching legion into Thrace as a sacrificial advance guard whose job is to slow Niger's six legions at any cost.

Having saved a wealthy province and gone into hiding, Marcus is drawn back to a conspiracy riddled Rome when his patron joins a plot against Commodus, forcing him to fight once more as a gladiator with the emperor himself marked as his ultimate opponent.

Now disgraced and working as bodyguard to a Russian oligarch, Mickey Bale is blackmailed by MI5 into spying on his own client while racing to track stolen Sunburn missile warheads before another terrorist strike wipes out thousands of civilians.

Met close protection officer Mickey Bale guards the Minister of Defence during a tense stand off with China, but off duty he wages a personal war on the London crime family whose drugs killed his sister, risking exposure as a lethal, unstoppable vigilante.

After saving the emperor in Rome, Marcus and his comrades are dispatched to Alexandria, then south along the desert roads to reopen a caravan route where an unknown enemy has annihilated a frontier garrison and threatens the trade riches that feed the empire.

Fresh from betrayal in the German forests, Marcus and the Tungrians are sent to Gaul to crush an outlaw named Maturnus, only to find a swelling rebel movement and a Praetorian led expedition that could destroy Marcus if his true identity is exposed.

With the Batavi army seemingly victorious and Rome distracted by civil war, the uprising reaches its peak, but Vespasian's legions are already marching north, forcing the four centurions who began as comrades to face the empire's inevitable and ruthless revenge.

The Batavian revolt explodes along the Rhine as rebel cohorts and tribal allies besiege Rome's Old Camp, leaving the outnumbered Fifth and Fifteenth Legions and the centurions trapped with them to endure hunger, treachery and wave after wave of furious assaults.

In the power vacuum after Nero's death, Emperor Galba disbands the German bodyguard and recalls the Batavian cohorts, freeing Julius Civilis and setting the stage for revolt as four centurions, Batavian and Roman, struggle to decide where their loyalty lies.

After their ordeal in Parthia, the Tungrians are ordered beyond the Rhine to snatch a feared tribal priestess, only to find themselves crossing haunted forests and old battlefields with stolen sacred treasures while a vengeful chieftain hunts them for sacrifice.

When Rome becomes too dangerous, Marcus and his legion are sent east to the Parthian frontier, tasked with turning a sullen Third Legion into a fighting force, breaking a siege and persuading a foreign king to step back from all out war.

Back in Rome, Marcus finally tracks the cabal behind his family's murder, plunging into a deadly hunt through slums, villas and arenas where a senator, crime boss, Praetorian officer and champion gladiator are all ready to spill more blood.

Recalled to a troubled Britannia, Marcus leads the Tungrians north of the abandoned Antonine Wall to recover a lost legionary eagle from an almost unassailable mountain fortress, risking swamp, snow and a vengeful war leader to save a disgraced legion.

Sent to Dacia to guard the gold mines that bankroll the empire, Marcus and the Tungrians must hold a remote valley against marauding Sarmatian horsemen and treacherous supposed allies, fighting to keep both Rome's treasure and their own lives intact.

Transferred from Hadrian's Wall to the Tungrians' home city in Germania, Marcus and his men confront a plague damaged province terrorised by a masked bandit chief whose savage raids and superior sword threaten to shatter Rome's hold on the region.

Ordered deep into rebel held north Britannia, Marcus joins a handpicked force racing to seize a mountain fortress before a resurgent enemy can regroup, all while imperial assassins who know his true name close in from behind.

As northern tribes pour south under warlord Calgus, Marcus, now Centurion Corvus of the 1st Tungrians, must shape untested Syrian archers into a fighting unit while ambitious new officers and the emperor's agents close in on his deadly secret.

Marcus Valerius Aquila barely reaches Roman Britain before a death sentence from Emperor Commodus forces him to vanish into an obscure auxiliary cohort on Hadrian's Wall, where rebellion, brutal frontier warfare and a new identity test his courage and loyalty.