Simon Scarrow is a Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author. His bestsellers include eleven novels featuring Roman soldiers Macro and Cato, with the latest, THE BLOOD CROWS, to be published in October 2013, following, most recently, PRAETORIAN and THE LEGION. He is the author of several other bestselling historical novels, including SWORD AND SCIMITAR, about the 1565 Siege of Malta, and a series of novels about the lives of the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon Bonaparte - YOUNG BLOODS, THE GENERALS, FIRE AND SWORD and THE FIELDS OF DEATH. Simon's novels have been published in the USA and in translation all around the world.