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  • Brothers in Blood

  • Eagles of the Empire, Book 13
  • By: Simon Scarrow
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
  • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (748 ratings)

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Brothers in Blood

By: Simon Scarrow
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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Summary

If you don't know Simon Scarrow, you don't know Rome!

Brothers in Blood is the enthralling thirteenth novel in Simon Scarrow's best-selling Eagles of the Empire series. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell.

The Roman Empire's conquest of Britannia is under threat from within. A messenger on the streets of Rome has been intercepted and tortured, revealing a plot to sabotage the Roman army's campaign against Caratacus, commander of Britannia's native tribes. A treacherous agent's mission is to open a second front of attack against them and eliminate the two Roman soldiers who could stand in the way.

Unwarned, Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro are with the Roman army pursuing Caratacus and his men through the mountains of Britannia. Defeating Caratacus seems within their grasp. But the plot against the two heroes threatens not only their military goals but also their lives.

©2014 Simon Scarrow (P)2014 Headline Publishing Group Ltd.
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brothers in blood

great story as always with the series, but not the best. Keeble is still a great narrator!

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Enjoyable narrative

Another excellent story from Simon Scarrow. Enjoyed the narrative. Including the accent changes. The story flowed

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Rule Britannia!

It's all I can do not to completely binge read this series now. This passage of books back in Britannia is simply fabulous. This one gives us some fantastic and imaginatively realised battle scenes, plenty of time with Macro and Cato and in fact we even have Cato doing a fair impression of a Roman Hercule Poirot by the end!

Mr Keeble is of course firmly ensconced behind the microphone so there is no questioning the quality of the delivery.

The challenge is not to race through them now and find myself bereft at the end!

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Another great adventure

This is another great adventure for Macro & Cato, Simon Scarrow is one of my all time favourite authors. Oh yes

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First audible

My first audible, very impressed with the narrator. Another story from Scarrow that I couldn't put down.

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amazing

could not put it down. loved it. one of the best battle ever described. will read again and again

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A thumping good yarn.

Excellent story in this series of books. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Very well written and read.

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"Order the fires to be lit"

Where does Brothers in Blood rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

The entire Eagle series by Simon Scarrow is superb for anyone who enjoys historical fiction set in Roman times. With the friends, Cato and Macro, back in the army in Britannia, this has to rate high in a favourite list.

Which scene did you most enjoy?

No one scene in particular but the visual impression of the misery of constant cold rain and mud underfoot stays with me together with the steadfast courage of men facing impossible odds.

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The ongoing pleasure of these stories is the relationship between the two unlikely friends as well as the adventures they face together. The historical details of life in the Roman army and the country in which they are based at the time have been well researched and are vividly depicted. Jonathan Keeble's excellent narration breathes extra life into the characters and his pacing exactly matches the story's tempo.
Why only four stars? Entirely personal: although the up-close-and-personal fighting is graphically described with, I'm sure, careful precision, in this particular book I found there was just a tad too much for my taste. But that said, I still thoroughly recommend Brothers in Blood to anyone.

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Just gets better ....

What did you like most about Brothers in Blood?

I was a bit dubious about getting book 13(!) of Cato and Macro's adventures on Audible. I have read all the others and, to be honest, the last couple had not quite reached the levels of the first two. I am very happy to say that Simon Scarrow, with Jonathan Keeble's narration has convinced me otherwise. The spying/espionage bit is still in the story but takes second place to some excellent battle scenes and some surprising fears for Cato.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Brothers in Blood?

Breaking into the hill fort/palace has to be a high point.

Have you listened to any of Jonathan Keeble’s other performances? How does this one compare?

This was the first time. I thought he really contributed to the story.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

'Citadel'

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Scarrow back to near his best

Cato and Macro have been becoming a little too 21st century in the last couple of Scarrow’s books. Almost as if they were being written for a Hollywood film. But in blood brothers there’s a little more of the old feel about them. More like the men of the early Eagles novels. It’s good to see them back.

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