Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4695 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 608 pages

From the Publisher
'What a cracking story. I’ve lost two days of writing time because of it and I don’t regret it at all. This is a brilliant, fact-paced epic, bringing an ancient people back to roaring life. Superb' Conn Iggulden

From the Back Cover
'What a cracking story. I've lost two days of writing time because of it and I don't regret it at all. This is brilliant, fast-paced epic, bringing an entire people back to roaring life. Superb.' Conn Iggulden

'A lusty debut. The imminent raid by the barbarians creates an inherent, delicious sense of tension throughout, until the final unleashing of pure, bloody slaughter.' Kirkus

About the Author
Sam Barone:
Born and raised in New York, Sam Barone attended Manhattan College, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1965, with a major in Psychology. After a hitch in the Marine Corps, he became a software developer and manager. After spending nearly 30 years in the software development game, he retired in 1999 to start working on his second career: writing. Dawn of Empireis his first novel. He is currently working on the sequel – The Road To Empire.

Customer Reviews

GREAT
If you like B Cornwell, Young, R Low S Scarrow etc , you like this more.
Great story line and fast moving storyline. Looking forward to the next book.

Enjoyable tale
In this tale the author creates a very normal hero filled with doubts and anxieties which thankfully are answered as the story progresses. If you have ever doubted what the love of a good woman could do you won't after this Eskkar-the hero-is given an intelligent woman as a slave and she does things for him that any man would be grateful for. My only doubts were that a fiercely proud barbarian might not be so ready to take everything a fourteen year old female slave told him quite so readily. I would also have preferred one interesting sequence about their bedroom habits instead of every time they got together.Other than that it was a page turner with good description, countless conflicts and much interplay between the characters. It kept my interest and I would just like to add that I don't read historical fiction to discover fact, that's why it's called fiction.I only judge the read and I will read this author again.

Great book
A fast paced entertaining book bringing to life a period of history not written about enough. A good start to a promising series, I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading books by Bernard Cornwell or Valerio Massimo Manfredi.