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'Don't let them get away!' I heard someone cry, and looking up I saw an officer in full dress armor bearing a crimson cloak--General Barbatio. 'Seize those criminals!'
But the Alemanni had seen us coming. With white smiles glowing eerily in the moonlight from their blackened faces, they pried and slashed at the ropes until just before the lead Roman carpenters, wielding wood-cutting tools, had reached their position. Then, each one pausing only long enough to seize a loosened plank, they leaped back into the water--this time downstream of the bridge--lay with their bellies flat on the broad boards beneath them, and serenely paddled off with the current, the moonlight reflecting for a long while on their glistening backs, as the Romans raged impotently on their now broken and wandering bridge.

Michael Ford has an MPA degree in Economics from Princeton University, speaks several languages and is an avid reader of the Classics. He lives in Salem, Oregon, where he and his wife educate their two children at home.


By Michael Curtis Ford

The Ten Thousand: a novel of Ancient Greece
Gods & Legions: a novel of the Roman Empire



GODS &
LEGIONS


A NOVEL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE


Michael Curtis Ford
















An Orion paperback

First published in Great Britain in 2002
by Orion
This paperback edition published in 2003
by Orion Books Ltd,
Orion House, 5 Upper St Martin's Lane,
London WC2H 9EA

Copyright (c) Michael Curtis Ford 2002
Map design (c) Jackie Aher

The right of Michael Curtis Ford to be identified as the