Before King Arthur, There was excalibur.
The camp was quiet. Mist shrouded the plains and the plains and the Nova Invicta Legion, the legendary warriors charged with protecting the last Emperor of Rome, settled in for another cold and bitter night. Then, through the fog, the barbarians appeared. In the space of a few hours all was lost: the imperial family was executed and the young Emperor, Romulus Augustus, deposed and imprisoned. The Roman Empire lay in ruins...
But not all the Romans are dead. From the dust of the battlefield a band of seemingly immortal legionaries arises: Rufius Aelius Vatrenus, veteran of countless battles, Cornelius Batiatus, a gigantic Ethiopian of incredible stregth, and Aurelius, their commander, the most loyal and valiant of them all. They are joined by Livia Prisca, a formidable warrioress who emerges from the steaming swamps of Ravenna like a magical apparition. They are the Last Legion.
Risking their lives, the legion attempt an audacious and desperate mission: to free the Emperor and his enigmatic tutor.
Brilliant, bewitching and utterly convincing, Valerio Massimo Manfredi has written an epic which will hold you spellbound until the very last page.