by Pedro Santamaría Fernández · PAMIES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788418491177
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Year 450 AD. The empire of Attila, king of the Huns, stretches from the Rhine to the Black Sea and from the Danube to the Baltic. His invincible hordes have subdued the Germanic tribes and have defeated the Eastern Roman Empire time and again, which now, fearful, bows before him and pays tribute. From the Danube to Constantinople everything is devastated. Flavio Aecio, general in chief of the troops of the West, knows that, sooner or later, it will be his part of the Empire's turn. But the West is weak and alone: the rich province of Africa has fallen into the hands of the Vandals, Suevi and Bagaudas roam freely through Hispania and, in the southwest of Gaul, the Goths have established a small kingdom around the city of Toulouse. Meanwhile, in Ravenna, the imperial court of the young and incapable Valentinian III is little more than a nest of vipers, conspiracies and betrayals. Aecio is aware that if there is an opportunity to save what little remains of Rome, he will have to agree with his old and suspicious enemies, the Goths of Teodoredo, and face the hordes of Attila in what will be the last great battle of the Roman army. On the green plains of Gaul, History itself will hold its breath. The future of the West is at stake. A day. All or nothing. Campos de gloria is Pedro Santamaría's ninth novel, after Okela, El águila y la Lambda, Peña Amaya, Rebeldes, Godos, Al servicio del Imperio, El ateniense and El saqueo de Roma.
