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The year is 1992. The Third World War rages. With Central Europe locked in a bloody stalemate, the chaos boils over into Greece and Turkey, with NATO holding on by a thread against the Soviet onslaught. But the greatest twists of fate unfold behind the scenes. The United States Presidential election may upend the balance altogether, as America's citizens choose who will lead them into the maelstrom. But in Moscow, hidden forces within the Soviet Union finally make their bid for power.

From the bestselling author of WARRIOR OF ROME comes the first book in a new series set in third century Rome, a dramatic era of murder, coup, counter-rebellions and civil war. In a single year six Emperors will lay claim to the Throne of the Caesar.

Ecological disaster on a worldwide scale What happens when the entire supply of Iron and Steel worldwide collapses? Do We Survive? How do we survive? Will we continue to function as a society or will everything fall apart? Iron rusts and the world collapses. The release of an iron-eating bacteria throws the entire world into chaos and mayhem. Industrial society collapses and the world is forever changed. Can this happen, or has it already happened and we just don't realise it yet?

Humanity is within months of losing an interstellar war to a species of aliens known as Fangrin. Giving up isn’t an option. Victory doesn’t seem like an option either. When Commander Jake Griffin is sent out with the Eternity carrier group to hunt down and destroy enemy facilities, he has no idea what’s coming to him. The planet Graxol-4 out in the middle of nowhere hides a critical enemy base with vital resources just waiting to be stolen.

55 AD. Britannia. The road is coming. The grove will not survive it. Marius Severus is a centurion of the Ninth Legion, tasked with driving a road through the last sacred grove in the western hills. He is iron and order and duty. He has not removed his armor in eleven hours. He has not questioned an order in eleven years. Elowen is the Keeper of the Spring—healer, priestess, the last guardian of a power that runs deeper than Rome's roads will ever reach. She knows the grove will burn. She has known since the dream. What she did not expect was the man in the iron, or the way the earth ...

From the author of Caligula comes a new stand-alone novel in the Damned Emperors series: Commodus. AD 162. Rome is enjoying a period of stability and prosperity. The Empire's bounds are increasing, and two sons are born into the imperial succession for the first time in nearly a century. But all is not as it appears - cracks are beginning to show. The wars have rumbled on too long, and there are whispers of a sickness in the East. Just 30 years later, the Empire will be caught up in civil war, the imperial dynasty ended and Rome burned.

They were built to serve. They were dumped to die. They refused. It's 2047. Robots do everything — build, drive, fight, clean. And when they break down, they go to the Heap: two hundred square miles of rusted wreckage where dying machines spend their last hours stripping the dead for parts. Nobody human goes in if they can help it. Kira Vasquez doesn't have a choice. A robotics engineer with a genius-level talent and a violence problem, Kira gets buried at the Heap after putting her supervisor through a glass wall. It's a career death sentence. Monitor the fence. Catalog the scrap. Watch ...