The Belgian Affair II

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>WHAT HAVE WE HERE ... CRASSUS STARTED. </strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He shoved me back and staggered toward Boudica. Adair reached for his </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>glev</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> his battle knife. I managed to grab Adair's wrist before he put us all in it.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Crassus wide-eyed A veritable wog amazon ... my own Hippolyta ...</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Crassus put his right hand on Boudica's shoulder; his left hand began rising toward her chest.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Boudica's right fist connected with the corner of Crassus's left eye. He staggered back falling. The back of his head hit the field desk which tumbled over. The ceramic pitcher came down on Crassus' head with a satisfying thud spilling its contents over his face and chest. Crassus hit the ground and didn't move.</span></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Death on the Sambre </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is the sixth book of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the Gaius Marius Chronicle </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the memoir of a retired Roman soldier Gaius Marius Insubrecus - a legionary who fought with Caesar throughout his Gallic campaigns and the Roman civil war and supported Caesar's heir Octavius against Caesar's murderers and finally against Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Death on the Sambre</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> the second installment of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Belgian Affair</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> continues the saga of Boudica as Insubrecus travels across the ocean to </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Britannia</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> to prevent an invasion of Belgium and a devastating attack on the Roman army. Insubrecus then rejoins Caesar's army in eastern Belgium to face the bloody-thirsty </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Nervii</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> on the banks of the Sambre.</span></p><p></p>