The camp was quiet. Mist shrouded the plains and the Nova lnvicta 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 yotmg Emperon,Romulus Augustus, deposed and imprisoned.The Rolnan Empire lay in ruins ...

The camp was quiet. Mist shrouded the plains and the Nova lnvicta 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 yotmg Emperon,Romulus Augustus, deposed and imprisoned.The Rolnan 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 Vatrelms, veteran of countless battles, (~ornelius Batiatus, a gigantic Ethiopian of incredible strength, and Aurelius, their commander, the most loyal and waiant of them all.They are joined bv kivia 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 vou spellbound until the very last page.