Bøger af John Salter

Dan Browne is an ex-slave and American Warrior. He fought and survived John Brown's debacle at Harper's Ferry, to be rescued by young Solly and his grandfather when he lay between life and death in the "Armory" John Brown had defended. Once Solly had nursed Dan back to health they join a USCT (US Coloured Troops) Regiment and fight with Sherman across the Southern States. They learn that an army at war is rather like a ship at sea where, as Herman Melville has pointed out, on shore inhibitions are left ashore and sexuality is expressed with those at hand and Eros and Dionysus ride the skies at night sowing friendly caresses, wild lust and even love as troubled souls escape the horrors of battle. Thus love and tragedy abound as do delight and terror. That our heroes are coloured makes little difference when it comes to love and war - where all die or survive as best they can.

Blood of Rome III - Albion's Heart. Caradoc and the free tribes have established themselves in the west, in the mountains and valleys of the Silures tribe. From this vantage point, they watch, wait, observe and strike at times of their own choosing against the Roman threat and those that support them, fellow Britons. Surrounded on all sides, by the legions of Rome, they bare their teeth in defiance. Woad covers their skin, tribal tweed, and plaid their bodies, Albion will not go quietly into the night. At sea, the Roman Navy blockades their escape on the water. On land, four full legions of the Emperor, Claudius close in for the kill. Caradoc welcomes the challenge, the battle for his land, his, people and their entire way of life. The Britons did not want war, Rome brought it to them. With Celtic blood stirred, they will resist until the end. They are proud warriors, defiant and, will be defined by their ancestor's spirits in the battle to come. "To the end, death or glory. Havoc, I call to you, beg you, ride with me now. Wrath, wet my blade. Vengeance, do your worst, for I am the storm itself!" Caradoc 48 AD. Blood of Rome III - Albion's Heart' is the third thrilling instalment of the Blood of Rome series, chronicling the history of the AD43 Roman Invasion of Britannia by John Salter.

Three years have passed since the Claudian invasion of Britannia in AD 43. Caratacus has been forced to retreat to the west, where he now leads the free tribes against the Roman occupation of their land. From his mountain stronghold, he launches devastating attacks upon the legions seeking retribution for the death of his brother and thousands of Britons. The war has just begun, but it's not a war that Rome is used to fighting as Caratacus' warriors strike and then vanish into the hills and mist. The Roman war machine has been halted in its tracks and now struggles to come to terms with the tactics used by an enemy employing the guile and cunning of a wolf, and the ferocity of a wounded bear, an enemy they believed should have been brushed aside already. As the conflict continues and battles rage, a fight to the death ensues, a fight between a warrior's honour and an empire's strength, both determined upon victory.

Blood of Rome: Caratacus is the first novel in the Blood of Rome series. It tells the true story based upon historical fact of one man's fight against the most powerful empire in the known world. Forced to fight against overwhelming odds, in a war he didn't desire, Caratacus defies Rome and halts its charge across the lands of Albion, an Island they call Britannia. The Roman Senate thought that it would be a quick, decisive victory against uncivilised barbarians on the edge of their north-western frontier, they were wrong. This is the story of the invasion of Britannia in AD 43 as it has never been told before.

Jackson Penn''s complex upbringing prepares him for a range of experiences for which the description ''character-building'' would not do justice. Growing up in Hannibal, Missouri in the mid-nineteenth century with an abusive, habitually drunk father who failed to exploit the wealth he unexpectedly acquired, he is forced to establish his own path unguided and discover his own sexual identity. Intimate friendships with both sexes including with Dan, his friend''s negro slave, are pursued across a background of racial and political tension as the abolitionist cause gains momentum and civil war looms. Jackson is forced to confront his native American roots as circumstances lead him to remain on the move. His journey brings him into contact with an eccentric militant preacher and an emerging literary figure while all the time the unpredictable, unfathomable, glacial qualities of this boy are evolving.