Eagle and Empire (The Hesperian Trilogy #3)

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It's The Last of the Mohicans meets HBO's Rome in this inventive conclusion to the Clash of EaglesTrilogy from Sidewise Award-winner Alan Smale.

Tasked with subjugating North America for the Roman Imperium in 1218 AD, Praetor Gaius Marcellinus lost his entire legionbut gained a powerful sense of purpose in uniting the peoples of the new world.

Ending the seasons-old Mourning War between the five nations of the Iroqua and the plains-based Cahokians, Gaius was able to garner an uneasy truce between these united tribes and a Roman war machine hungry for gold and conquest. But Rome's long-standing conflict with the Mongol Horde has spilled over into North America.

As the invaders of the steppes ride over the Rocky Mountains into the central plains, a massive conflict looms on the horizon like a thunderhead. This battle will change this world, and Gaius, forever.

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ALAN SMALE is the author of numerous short stories, and has been published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and Realms of Fantasy. He won the 2010 Sidewise Award for Alternate History. He grew up in Yorkshire, England, but now lives in the Washington D.C. area. He works at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center as a professional astronomer.