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See the Casca books by Tony Roberts in order, with quick summaries, series background, and advice on where to start his run of the immortal soldier saga.

Last updated: June 10, 2026

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59 books

1

God of Death

by Tony Roberts

1979

2

The Eternal Mercenary

by Tony Roberts

1979

3

Panzer Soldier

by Tony Roberts

1980

4

The War Lord

by Tony Roberts

1980

5

The Barbarian

by Tony Roberts

1981

6

The Damned

by Tony Roberts

1982

7

The Persian

by Tony Roberts

1982

8

Soldier of Fortune

by Tony Roberts

1983

9

The Sentinel

by Tony Roberts

1983

10

The African Mercenary

by Tony Roberts

1984

11

The Conquistador

by Tony Roberts

1984

12

The Legionnaire

by Tony Roberts

1984

13

The Assassin

by Tony Roberts

1985

14

The Phoenix

by Tony Roberts

1985

15

The Pirate

by Tony Roberts

1985

16

Desert Mercenary

by Tony Roberts

1986

17

The Cursed

by Tony Roberts

1987

18

The Warrior

by Tony Roberts

1987

19

Soldier of Gideon

by Tony Roberts

1988

20

The Samurai

by Tony Roberts

1988

21

The Trench Soldier

by Tony Roberts

1989

22

The Mongol

by Tony Roberts

1990

23

The Liberator

by Tony Roberts

1999

24

The Defiant

by Tony Roberts

2001

25

Halls of Montezuma

by Tony Roberts

2006

Back in America and hunted on several fronts, Casca joins the U.S. Army as war with Mexico begins. Protecting an immigrant family leads him to the Marines and the assault on Chapultepec.

26

Johnny Reb

by Tony Roberts

2007

As the Civil War erupts, Casca fights for Virginia and turns raw recruits into soldiers. Battlefield danger is only part of the problem, because the Brotherhood is closing in and someone in his own unit wants him dead.

27

Immortal Dragon

by Tony Roberts

2008

28

The Avenger

by Tony Roberts

2008

Casca returns to Constantinople bent on revenge against the Brotherhood of the Lamb. To reach the men he wants, he must fight his way through chariot racing, court intrigue, and imperial double-dealing.

29

The Confederate

by Tony Roberts

2008

From Sharpsburg to Gettysburg, Casca tries to keep his shrinking band alive as the Confederacy begins to break. The Brotherhood is still hunting him, and the war outside is not his only battle.

30

Napoleon's Soldier

by Tony Roberts

2009

Casca marches with Napoleon into Russia, where winter may kill faster than enemy fire. A murdered village, a stolen icon, and a killer nearby give him a second mission inside the campaign.

31

The Conqueror

by Tony Roberts

2009

After his Normandy farm is destroyed, Casca follows vengeance into William's invasion of England. Love, ambition, and one ruthless enemy pull him straight into the fight for 1066.

32

Devil's Horseman

by Tony Roberts

2010

Casca rejoins the Mongol Horde and is dragged into a brutal struggle over succession while Europe burns ahead of them. A stolen woman and a guarded coronation stone make the ride even bloodier.

33

The Anzac

by Tony Roberts

2010

Casca escapes discovery in Egypt by burying himself inside an Australian unit bound for Gallipoli. Between trench warfare, military police, and betrayal in the ranks, he has nowhere safe to stand.

34

The Outlaw

by Tony Roberts

2010

35

The Minuteman

by Tony Roberts

2011

A rivalry over Rose Maplin turns vicious just as rebellion breaks out in British America. Casca ends up with the Minutemen and faces Sir Richard Eley from Bunker Hill to Trenton.

36

Roman Mercenary

by Tony Roberts

2012

Shaken by Rome's fall, Casca accepts what should be a simple rescue mission into barbarian-held territory. Gold draws a rough band around him, but one of his companions is hiding another agenda.

37

The Continental

by Tony Roberts

2012

Taken prisoner during the American Revolution, Casca endures a British prison hulk before making a desperate escape. Freedom gives him one last chance to settle his score with Sir Richard Eley.

38

Blitzkrieg

by Tony Roberts

2014

A murder inquiry in Berlin drives Casca to hide inside Germany's new panzer corps. War with Poland, Belgium, and France follows, while the law and older enemies close in behind him.

39

Sword Of The Brotherhood

by Tony Roberts

2014

The Brotherhood of the Lamb forces Casca into a mission he cannot refuse by threatening Ayesha. To save her and recover the Spear of Longinus, he must march with Emperor Heraclius into war against Persia.

40

The Crusader

by Tony Roberts

2014

Casca joins the First Crusade after agreeing to protect a helpless French noblewoman. Her hidden relic and the Brotherhood's arrival turn a holy war into a deeply personal fight.

41

The Longbowman

by Tony Roberts

2014

Casca steals a criminal's girl and escapes by joining Henry V's army for France. As siege, disease, and an assassin bear down on them, he marches toward Agincourt with nowhere else to go.

42

Barbarossa

by Tony Roberts

2015

As Hitler's armies drive into Soviet Russia, Casca rides with the German spearhead and battles across the Eastern Front. At the same time, the Brotherhood tightens its hunt with the help of the Nazi state.

43

Scourge Of Asia

by Tony Roberts

2015

A desperate Byzantine emperor sends Casca east to find a warlord strong enough to break the Ottoman rise. His search carries him into Central Asia and into the orbit of the rising Timur.

44

Balkan Mercenary

by Tony Roberts

2016

In the wreckage of Yugoslavia in 1991, Casca joins a covert Croatian mission to kill a war criminal before ethnic cleansing begins. Personal revenge drives him too, but his own team is hiding deadly secrets.

45

Emperor's Mercenary

by Tony Roberts

2016

Back in a divided Roman world, Casca fights for Emperor Honorius while hunting a priceless artifact behind enemy lines. The battlefield is dangerous, but imperial politics may be deadlier.

46

The Cavalryman

by Tony Roberts

2017

A frontier vendetta pushes Casca onto the trail of a brutal gang and into the ranks of Custer's 7th Cavalry. His hunt for one last survivor ends at Little Bighorn.

47

The Viking

by Tony Roberts

2017

Trying to escape Charlemagne's wars, Casca is taken by Viking raiders and dragged north. He wins a place among them, but holding power in a settlement of rival jarls proves harder than taking it.

48

The Austrian

by Tony Roberts

2018

Vienna is ringed by Ottoman forces, and Casca rides to the city's defense with an old score to settle. The siege is fierce enough on its own, but the Brotherhood is waiting inside the walls.

49

The Lombard

by Tony Roberts

2018

Living among the Lombards at the edge of Italy, Casca learns that his old enemy Narses has surfaced again. To reach him, Casca and the woman he loves must survive a land split by rival powers and old hatreds.

50

The Commissar

by Tony Roberts

2019

Caught in the collapse of the Russian front in 1917, Casca throws in with the Red Army as civil war spreads through Ukraine. When communist brutality shows its true face, escape becomes as deadly as battle.

51

The Saracen

by Tony Roberts

2019

Cast ashore after a storm, Casca drifts into the violent world of crusaders and Saladin. A feud, a siege, and one woman in mortal danger force him to fight on both personal and historic fronts.

52

The Last Defender

by Tony Roberts

2020

Constantinople is under siege, and Casca cannot watch the last remnant of Rome fall without a fight. He joins the desperate defense against the Ottoman armies in a battle that feels personal as well as historic.

53

The Rough Rider

by Tony Roberts

2020

Casca joins Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders in Cuba and rides into the bloody fight for Santiago. The war is brutal enough, but a personal vow to protect a young woman pulls him into an even more dangerous private conflict.

54

The Killer

by Tony Roberts

2021

Fresh from Indo-China, Casca and his Legion comrades are thrown into the Algerian War. Fighting guerrillas, terror, and French brutality on every side, he earns a fearsome new name, al-Kattel, The Killer.

55

The Moor

by Tony Roberts

2021

Freed from a fifty-year burial under the Sahara, Casca reaches North Africa just as the Moorish push into Spain begins. Vengeance, new loyalties, and another decisive clash over Europe's future shape his path.

56

The Iron Duke's Man

by Tony Roberts

2022

After escaping the aftermath of Russia, Casca hopes for rest in the west. Napoleon's return ruins that plan, and soon he is marching under Wellington toward the final reckoning at Waterloo.

57

The Red Rose

by Tony Roberts

2022

After helping young noblewoman Genevieve Fitzroy, Casca is drawn into Beaufort service as the Wars of the Roses begin. Protecting her while loyalties shift and armies collide becomes his real test.

58

The Explorer

by Tony Roberts

2023

Restless in Egypt, Casca sails east with Ayesha and is wrecked on the coast of India. A local feud soon grows into a war between kingdoms, and getting out alive becomes its own campaign.

59

The Hunter

by Tony Roberts

2023

The war in Ukraine gives Casca a new battlefield, but his real mission is even darker. The Brotherhood is racing to recover a secret weapon abandoned at Chernobyl, and Casca has to stop them first.

Series background & context

Casca is built on one very strong hook. Casca Rufio Longinus, once a Roman soldier, is cursed with immortality after driving his spear into Jesus at the crucifixion. He cannot die in the ordinary way, he heals from wounds that should finish any other man, and he is forced to keep moving through history as a soldier while he waits for the Second Coming.

That means the series can go almost anywhere.

In Tony Roberts' books, that freedom is the whole engine of the story. One novel might drop Casca into the Mexican-American War in Halls of Montezuma. Another might send him through the American Revolution in The Minuteman, the First Crusade in The Crusader, the fall of Constantinople in The Last Defender, or the chaos of modern conflict in The Hunter. Each book has its own campaign, local allies, and local enemies, so the series keeps changing uniforms, weapons, and battlefields without losing its core character.

The setting always matters. Roberts treats each period as a different survival problem. Sometimes Casca is a hired mercenary, sometimes a regular soldier, sometimes a fugitive trying to disappear inside an army. He has to learn new tactics, navigate new politics, and work out which cause, if any, deserves his sword. That historical variety is a big part of the appeal. You are not just following one man, you are watching him test himself against century after century of war.

There is also an ongoing shadow hanging over the books. Casca is hunted again and again by the Brotherhood of the Lamb, a fanatical order that sees him as an abomination and wants to capture or destroy him. That gives the series a continuing line of tension even when the time period changes. Personal grudges matter too. A lot of the books turn on revenge, rescue, loyalty, or the protection of one vulnerable person in the middle of a much bigger conflict. Casca may be immortal, but he is rarely detached.

These are not quiet historical novels.

They are brisk, battle-heavy adventures with a fantasy edge, but they also have a melancholy streak because Casca can never really settle. He loves, loses, changes names, and marches on. If you like military fiction, historical settings, and a hero who carries the weight of two thousand years on his back, this series gives you exactly that. Tony Roberts' run works well if you want a version of Casca that keeps the old premise but pushes it across a wide stretch of history, from muskets and cavalry to tanks, civil wars, and modern firefights.

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