A new land. A new world. A new Rome.49 B.C.Julius Caesar has crossed the Rubicon with his army. In Rome, the Optimate Senators, representing the cream of the Roman nobility, decide to flee before Caesar's forces. They plan to go to Greece; there, to raise an army and challenge the ascendancy of Caesar.At the last moment, their leader, General Gnaeus Pompey Magnus, demands a change of plans. The Optimates will go not to Greece but to Spain, where Pompey has gold, property, and men. The Senators and four legions of Roman troops set sail to Spain.Fate has other plans. A freak storm blows the Roman ships helplessly to sea. They are propelled past Gibraltar, away from Spain, and across a vast ocean that no Roman has ever imagined crossing. The storm leaves the battered Roman fleet within sight of a strange shore: the edge of a vast land of forests, mountains, and strange people.Lost in this new world, the Roman Senators resolve to start the Roman Republic anew. Led by a savage warlord, the inhabitants of Terra Nova, are organizing to resist the Roman incursion. The fate of the new Republic hangs by a thread Anderson Gentry grew up in the hills and trout streams of northeast Iowa's wooded uplands, gaining a keen interest in wildlife, camping, hunting, fishing, and the outdoors.Gentry served in the U.S. Army in the last years of the Cold War, including service in the Persian Gulf War. Captain Gentry concluded his military career by serving on the staff of the Command Surgeon, U.S. Army, Europe. Along the way, he obtained a bachelor's degree in Biology.Anderson Gentry's first major novel, The Crider Chronicles received a 2005 Preditors & Editors Reader's Choice Award for Top Ten Science Fiction Novel. The Galactic Confederacy series has continued with the 2008 release of Sky of Diamonds. A spin off work, Barrett's Privateers was released in 2008.His fast-paced, hard-hitting style combines a unique blend of outdoor savvy, real-world military experience, and realistic character development.
