Casca (Barry Sadler) Books in Order

In third-century Mexico, Casca is declared a god by the Teotec people. When the Olmecs attack, the unwanted immortal must defend a community whose faith in him carries its own burden.

When a badly wounded soldier survives injuries no man should survive, Army doctor Julius Goldman uncovers an impossible truth. The patient is Casca, a Roman legionnaire cursed to fight through the centuries.

In 1943, Casca fights with German forces at the Battle of Kursk. The vast armored clash brings him face to face with the machinery of modern war and, later, Adolf Hitler.

Casca travels from third-century Byzantium to China, where he becomes entangled in courtly jealousy and imperial power. His enemies bury him alive, forcing the immortal soldier into another brutal test of endurance.

In the second century, Casca deserts the Roman legion and throws in with a Germanic tribe. He must survive on the far edge of Rome's power, where old loyalties no longer mean much.

Casca returns to the weakening Roman world as the Visigoths close in on Rome. Later, he joins the struggle against Attila the Hun at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains.

Casca becomes a commander in the army of the Persian king Shapur II. When he is branded a heretic and condemned to burn, immortality offers no protection from pain or betrayal.

Casca works as a mercenary in Cambodia during the 1970s, where a rescue mission leads deep into danger. The jungle, hostile forces, and civilians caught in the conflict raise the stakes at every turn.

After sleeping for more than a century in an ice cave, Casca awakens and travels to the Eastern Roman Empire. There he joins the fight against the Vandals in a world still shaped by Rome.

In 1977, Casca accepts a mission to kill an African dictator. Betrayed by the people meant to support him, he must rely on experience, instinct, and sheer endurance to get out alive.

Casca escapes a Spanish prison and crosses into the New World alongside Hernán Cortés. The immortal soldier finds conquest, greed, and violence waiting as old empires collide with new invaders.

Captured by the French at the end of World War II, Casca is forced into the Foreign Legion. His road eventually leads to French Indochina and the desperate fighting at Điện Biên Phủ.

Captured by Arabic slave traders in the eleventh century, Casca is drawn into the secretive world of the Hashshashin. To survive, he must learn the rules of an order built on discipline and murder.

On a Vietnam mission to stop an assassination squad, Casca is captured by the People's Army of Vietnam. His escape leaves him gravely wounded and brings him toward the events of *The Eternal Mercenary*.

Trying to evade arrest in 1718, Casca heads for the Caribbean and falls in with pirates, including Blackbeard. A rescue mission and ruthless rival ambitions turn the voyage into a fight for survival.

Casca and a tough group of international mercenaries assault a fortress above the Algerian desert. Their mission is to rescue the family of a wealthy munitions dealer before the hostile landscape closes in.

Casca joins the British Army in 1899, then deserts to the Chinese side during the Boxer Rebellion. Caught between armies and beliefs, he faces a conflict where survival depends on choosing the right enemy.

In the late 1860s, Casca reaches the South Pacific and becomes involved with an island community under threat from a local warlord. He must decide whether to fight for people he barely knows.

Casca returns to the Middle East in 1967 and joins the Israel Defense Forces. Fighting on the Golan Heights, he finds another modern war where old hatred and fast-moving violence collide.

Cast ashore near Japan in 1184, Casca is drawn into a struggle shaped by warrior honor and civil war. His path leads toward the decisive sea battle of Dan-no-ura.

Casca enters the British Army during the first brutal months of World War I. In the trenches, even an immortal soldier must face artillery, mud, fear, and warfare changed beyond recognition.

Rescued by a young Mongol warrior named Temujin, Casca becomes his teacher in the art of war. As Temujin grows into Genghis Khan, Casca watches a rising power turn toward conquest.

After a shipwreck leaves Casca trapped beneath the sea for years, African fishermen rescue him and treat him as a god. Their faith soon becomes a call to challenge a brutal ruler who claims divine power.

Casca saves the young Marco Polo and joins the journey east toward Kublai Khan's court. The immortal soldier must survive a world of rival powers, dangerous travel, and the shifting loyalties of thirteenth-century Asia.