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Sulla’s Fist
Book 5 in the The Sertorius Scrolls series.
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Sulla’s Fist places Sertorius in 90 BC as Italy turns against Rome in the Social War. After years away, he returns to a Republic where Rome’s own allies are now enemies, military discipline is under strain, and family loyalties are complicated by his son’s service under Sulla.
The historical setting is the war over Italian citizenship and Rome’s relationship with its allies. The novel uses sabotage, divided loyalties and rival commanders to show why the Social War was more than a conventional rebellion: it was a crisis over who could belong to Rome and who would command the armies raised to save it.