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Attila: The Gathering of the Storm
By (Author) William Napier
Orion Publishing Co
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
1st February 2008
3rd December 2007
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
336
Width 133mm, Height 197mm, Spine 22mm
234g
The 5th century has dawned in blood. The young boy exiled thirty years ago has grown into a man. One stormy autumn day, a mysterious rider is seen out on the plains. Attila has returned, his sentence served, to claim his kingdom. He will ride out at the head of no more than one hundred chosen men, driven by the ambition to unite all the feuding Hunnish and Scythian tribes under single banner and a single king. An impossible ambition. For Attila and his chosen men must triumph over blizzards and deserts, bandit kings and hidden mountain kingdoms and furious battle with the terrible Kutrigur Huns. But all will flock to his banner, answer his call. His power is mysterious and inexpressible, his strength of character and iron will cannot be opposed. And far to the west lies a promised empire both fabulously wealthy and tottering to its knees. An empire full of gold and silver and dark-eyed slavegirls...the Empire of Rome. And this strange horde from out of the Scythian wilderness will bring a night to fall on that Empire like no other...
William Napier was born in 1965 and educated in Cheltenham, Oxford and London. He lives in Wiltshire and travels widely.