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Marius' Mules -IV: King of the Mountains
Hispania, 68 BC. Facing trouble in the Ninth, with mutinous troops and a vicious new commander, Marcus Falerius Fronto finds refuge with the Governor of Hispania Citerior and a solution to his problems there.
But to save his career and his legion, he faces a mammoth to bring a rebellion in the mountains to a close. Part of the Vascones has decided to resist Roman occupation under a brutal new chief who calls himself The Ghost.
Commanding a strange and disparate force of soldiers, natives and retirees, Fronto must march into territories unknown, wrest harsh lands off dangerous tribes, and finally face the King of the Mountains.
But to save his career and his legion, he faces a mammoth to bring a rebellion in the mountains to a close. Part of the Vascones has decided to resist Roman occupation under a brutal new chief who calls himself The Ghost.
Commanding a strange and disparate force of soldiers, natives and retirees, Fronto must march into territories unknown, wrest harsh lands off dangerous tribes, and finally face the King of the Mountains.
386 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 30, 2026
About the author
S.J.A. Turney
82 books514 followersSimon lives with his wife and children and a menagerie of animals in rural North Yorkshire, where he sits in an office, wired on coffee and digestive biscuits, and attempts to spin engrossing tales out of strands of imagination while his children drive toys across his desk and two dogs howl as they try to share a brain cell.
A born and bred Yorkshireman with a love of country, history and architecture, Simon spends most of his rare free time travelling around ancient sites, writing, researching the ancient world and reading voraciously.
Following an arcane and eclectic career path that wound through everything from sheep to Microsoft networks and from paint to car sales, Simon wrote Marius’ Mules and, with help and support, made a success of it. Now, with in excess of 20 novels under his belt, Simon writes full time and is represented by MMB Creative literary agents.
Simon writes Roman military novels in the form of the bestselling Marius’ Mules series based on Julius Caesar’s campaigns, Roman thrillers in the Praetorian series, set during the troubled reign of Commodus, medieval adventures in the Ottoman Cycle, following a young Greek thief around the 15th century world, and a series of Historical Fantasy novels with a Roman flavour, called the Tales of the Empire.
Simon can be found on Twitter as @SJATurney and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SJATurney/ as well as on his website http://www.sjaturney.co.uk
A born and bred Yorkshireman with a love of country, history and architecture, Simon spends most of his rare free time travelling around ancient sites, writing, researching the ancient world and reading voraciously.
Following an arcane and eclectic career path that wound through everything from sheep to Microsoft networks and from paint to car sales, Simon wrote Marius’ Mules and, with help and support, made a success of it. Now, with in excess of 20 novels under his belt, Simon writes full time and is represented by MMB Creative literary agents.
Simon writes Roman military novels in the form of the bestselling Marius’ Mules series based on Julius Caesar’s campaigns, Roman thrillers in the Praetorian series, set during the troubled reign of Commodus, medieval adventures in the Ottoman Cycle, following a young Greek thief around the 15th century world, and a series of Historical Fantasy novels with a Roman flavour, called the Tales of the Empire.
Simon can be found on Twitter as @SJATurney and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SJATurney/ as well as on his website http://www.sjaturney.co.uk
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October 9, 2026
Fronto is back !
What a pleasure to be back with Fronto -like greeting a long lost friend. The story just flowed and was over too soon. Thank you for giving us more of Fronto
What a pleasure to be back with Fronto -like greeting a long lost friend. The story just flowed and was over too soon. Thank you for giving us more of Fronto
October 10, 2026
Fronto being Fronto
I can’t get enough Fronto. He is such a.
N endearing character and Turney does a masterful job of showing how he came to be in this prequel.
I can’t get enough Fronto. He is such a.
N endearing character and Turney does a masterful job of showing how he came to be in this prequel.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews