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In the best-selling tradition of Steven Pressfield, Bernard Cornwell, and Conn Iggulden, a hit occur Rome Currently a best-seller in the U.K., Fireplace in the East may be the first gripping payment within an enormous great narrative—the Soldier of Rome sequence. Within this “well-built, well-paced and gripping account” (Times Literary Supplement) Harry Sidebottom includes spectacular historic depth with definite modern importance as he examines the enduring issue of how much the West can visit guard its protections before it kills the thing it's attempting to protect. Advertisement 255—the Roman imperium is stretched to the bursting point, its expert and might questioned through the areas and along every edge. One man is delivered to marshal the defenses of the city and to shore-up the crumbling walls of the once indomitable image of Roman power, a man whose very name means battle: a man named Ballista.