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    The Emperor's Knives: Empire VII
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    The Emperor's Knives: Empire VII

    Written by Anthony Riches

    Narrated by Saul Reichlin

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    About this audiobook

    The seventh novel in Anthony Riches' acclaimed Empire sequence brings Marcus Aquila back to Rome, hunting the men who destroyed his family.

    But the revenge he craves may cost him and those around him dearly.

    The young centurion's urge to exact his own brutal justice upon the shadowy cabal of assassins who butchered his family means that he must face them on their own ground, risking his own death at their hands.

    A senator, a gang boss, a praetorian officer and, deadliest of all, champion gladiator Mortiferum – the Death Bringer – lie in wait.

    The knives are unsheathed, and ready for blood . . .

    (P)2014 Hodder & Stoughton

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette UK Audio
    Release dateFeb 13, 2014
    ISBN9781444731934
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    The Emperor's Knives: Empire VII
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    Anthony Riches

    Anthony Riches, coming from a family with an army background, has always been fascinated by military history, psychology and weaponry, which led him to write the Empire series set in ancient Rome. The idea for his first contemporary thriller, Nemesis, came to him while jetlagged at two in the morning in a Brisbane hotel room. He lives in rural Suffolk with his wife, two dogs the size of ponies and a bad-tempered cat. Follow Anthony on www.anthonyriches.com @AnthonyRiches

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    • 5/5
      Here in the seventh story of Marcus, we are used to his invincibility and so have to wonder if there is any drama that Riches can provide that leaves us in doubt in the characters invulnerability. One of the major characters has died in this series, but only one. That perhaps is something we should see more of. That more of the key men die, or that Marcus is so wounded in his fights that it becomes touch and go.Here we finally resolve the murders of the main characters family. Often gorily, and often with some foolishness, but it is resolved. Perhaps this should have had the last 1/6th of the last book. Everything that happens in Rome, stays in Rome. But Riches chose to break up matters over the two books, though the resolution of the Rome ARC beginning in the last book had little to do with the story there.Still, now that we wrap things up and see various parts of Rome, I rate this higher. It finishes a great part of the plot lines that did not work since the second book. It begins to give us a A Macro and Cato like plot at the end, though with 1600 extra characters to support the heroes. It could lead us in an interesting way now that the Rome Murder subplot is over. There is hope yet that the series will be better than it was before.