Gladiator: Son of Spartacus

Its place in Gladiator

Gladiator: Son of Spartacus is book 3 in the Gladiator series. It follows Gladiator: Street Fighter. It is followed by Gladiator: Vengeance. 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…