- When the Eagle Hunts
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name = When the Eagle Hunts
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author =Simon Scarrow
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country =United Kingdom
language = English
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genre =Historical novel
publisher =Headline (UK)
release_date = 2002
media_type = Print (Hardback &Paperback )
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preceded_by =The Eagle's Conquest
followed_by =The Eagle and the Wolves "When the Eagle Hunts" is a
2002 novel bySimon Scarrow , set in44 AD during theRoman invasion of Britain . It is the third book in theEagle Series .Plot summary
It is the winter of AD 44 and after a series of bloody battles,
Camulodunum (modern-day Colchester) has fallen to the invading Roman army.As General
Vespasian , legate ("Legatus legionis") of the Second Legion, helps plan their next campaign, General Plautius's wife and children are shipwrecked in a storm. They fall into the hands of a dark sect ofDruid s who now demand the return of their brotherhood taken prisoner by the Romans.Two soldiers (Centurion Macro and
Optio Cato) volunteer from the Second Legion of LegateVespasian to venture deep into hostile territory in an attempt to rescue the prisoners before they are sacrificed to the Druid's dark gods. Will Cato and Macro discover where the Druids are hiding their hostages? Can they find some way to rescue them before the time runs out?
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