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  • Usurper

  • The Parthian Chronicles, Book 7
  • By: Peter Darman
  • Narrated by: Andrew Kingston
  • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Doting father? Man of peace? These things are not you, Pacorus. Have you not heard of the hydra? Cut off one of its heads and two more will replace it. You defeat one enemy and another springs forth to torment you, just as the gods torment you with endless strife. After the defeat of Mark Antony Pacorus has returned to the city of Dura to prepare for a happier campaign: the wedding of his daughter to a prince of a kingdom on the eastern frontier of the Parthian Empire. Pacorus and his family and friends travel to the east to attend the wedding of Princess Isabella, but old scores need to be settled and a new power is rising beyond the Indus that will threaten the empire itself. Can Pacorus and the surviving Companions can save the empire and the reign of the young, duplicitous king of kings from the barbarian hordes in the east? ‘Usurper’ followers on from ‘Sons of the Citadel’.

A map of the Parthian Empire can be found on the maps page of my website: petedarman.com.
©2017 Peter Darman (P)2024 Peter Darman
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"Usurper sees Darman at his best; he has got the mix of fast-flowing narrative and authentic military action spot on. This book follows Pacorus and his fellow Kings as they journey to Afghanistan for a royal wedding. Luckily, for battle-loving aficianados, disaster strikes and Pacorus is forced to defend the Parthian Empire from a new Eastern threat." —British Army Rumour Service review, January 2018

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outstanding

one of my favourite series in historical fiction, pacorus king of dura in the parthian empire is now middle aged, travelling to the far east for his daughters wedding, embroiled into war with the kushan empire takes pacorus across the indus river into India.
with great detail and epic battles, friends enemies and family are a continuous link between books.

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