He currently lives with his family in North Somerset, England.

A lifelong student of military history, Kane has traveled widely, visiting more than sixty countries on seven continents. About the AuthorBEN KANE is the bestselling author of The Forgotten Legion trilogy as well as Spartacus: The Gladiator, a top-three bestseller on the London Sunday Times. They want to march on Rome itself and bring the Republic to its knees. Meanwhile, Spartacus wants to lead his men over the Alps and home, but his two seconds have a different plan. The Senate has given Crassus an army made up of ten legions and the authority to do whatever it takes to end the slave rebellion once and for all. Back in Rome, the immensely rich Marcus Licinius Crassus is gathering an unheard-of Army. One of Spartacus's most powerful generals has defected, taking his men with him. But storm clouds are gathering on the horizon.

Now the road home lies before them-to Thrace for Spartacus, and to Gaul for his seconds-in-command, Castus and Gannicus. On the plain of the River Po, in modern Northern Italy, Spartacus has defeated Gaius Cassius Longinus, proconsul and general of an army of two legions. The odyssey has begun which will see Spartacus become one of the greatest legends of history, the hero of revolutionaries from Karl Marx to Che Guevara, immortalised on screen, and now brought to life in Ben Kane's great bestseller - a novel which takes the story to its halfway point and is continued in Spartacus: Rebellion.Spartacus and his ragtag army take on the mighty Roman army in a brilliant recreation of one of the best-known epics of the modern era Spartacus has already done the impossible-not only has he escaped from slavery, he and his seconds have created a mighty slave army that has challenged Rome and defeated the armies of three praetors, two consuls, and one proconsul. Treacherous and violent, he immediately seizes Spartacus and sells him to a Roman slave trader looking for new gladiators. In Ben Kane's brilliant novel, we meet Spartacus as he returns to Thrace, ready to settle down after a decade away. We know that he came from Thrace, a land north of Greece, that he once fought in the Roman legions and that, during two fateful years, he led a slave army which nearly brought Rome to its knees. Historically very little is known about Spartacus. The first chapter from the first of two epic novels which tell the story of one of the most charismatic heroes history has ever known - Spartacus, the gladiator slave who took on and nearly defeated the might of Rome, during the years 73-71 BC.

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