Hostage Lands (Bond)

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Author: Douglas Bond ISBN: 9781596380271 Binding: paperback Section: Childrens-Middle-Reader Neil Perkins, a Latin student at Haltwhistle Grammar School in England, unearths an anc ient Roman manuscript. He dedicates himself to study Latin and so uncovers a story of treachery and betrayal from the third century. Disaffected centurion, Rusticus, serves Rome at Hadrian's Wall, an unruly frontier. A Celt named Calum, who was deeply changed when he saw Christians martyred in the Roman Coliseum, saves Perkins from a massacre. Show more