Gladiator · Book 1

Gladiator: Fight for Freedom

by Simon Scarrow

Published
3 February 2011
Pages
226
ISBN-13
9780141328584
Type
novel

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About this book

Gladiator: Fight for Freedom (February 2011, 226 pages) opens the series with Marcus, whose decorated Roman-officer father is falsely accused of treason and vanishes, sold into slavery and trained as a gladiator to survive while he hunts for evidence to clear his father's name.

Its place in Gladiator

Gladiator: Fight for Freedom is book 1 in the Gladiator series. It is followed by Gladiator: Street Fighter. See the full Gladiator reading order.

Simon Scarrow's Gladiator quartet is a young-adult companion to his adult Eagles of the Empire novels, following a teenage boy, Marcus, whose father -- a decorated Roman officer -- is falsely accused of treason and vanishes, leaving Marcus and his mother destitute in Rome. Sold into slavery and trained as a gladiator to survive, Marcus fights his way through the arena while hunting for evidence that will clear his father's name and reunite what's left of his family. Fight for Freedom opens the series with his…

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