Simon Scarrow

With his reputation already on the line for refusing to join the Nazi party, Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke investigates a series of brutal murders during the Third Reich's forced nightly blackouts during the brutally cold winter of 1939 in Berlin.

In the first century AD, Rome faces a potent new threat from its long-standing enemy - Parthia. The two rivals are vying for control of Palmyra, an officially neutral kingdom along the Euphrates River. Palmyra's royal household is on the brink of open revolt, so Rome dispatches a task force under the command of veteran warriors Marco and Cato to defend its king and guard its borders. Marco's cohort must march against the enemy, deep into treacherous...

After Germany's invasion of Poland, the world is holding its breath and hoping for peace. At home, the Nazi Party's hold on power is absolute. One freezing night, an SS doctor and his wife return from an evening mingling with their fellow Nazis at the concert hall. By the time the sun rises, the doctor will be lying lifeless in a pool of blood. Was it murder or suicide? Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke is told that under no circumstances should...

When the actions of a rebel gladiator in Egypt threaten the stability of the Roman Empire, Acting Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro know he must be stopped. Ajax and his crew have been attacking naval bases, merchant vessels and villages along the Egyptian coast, stirring up anti-Roman sentiment by posing as Romans. With the southern frontier under raid by the Nubians, Egypt has become dangerously volatile. Tasked by Egypt's governor with defeating...