The Parthian
My interest in Spartacus and his slave revolt began when I was a boy and watched Kirk Douglas and Jean Simmons in Stanley Kubrick’s film Spartacus. It was, and still is, one of my favourite films. The years passed and my interest in Spartacus grew. I wanted to write a book about the man and his heroic uprising that shook the Roman Republic and whose name lives on over 2000 years later. The result is ‘The Parthian’, my first novel and indeed my first ebook. The tale of Spartacus is told through the eyes of Pacorus, a Parthian who is captured fighting the Romans and sent to Italy in chains. Thereafter he is freed by Spartacus and his escaped gladiators on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius and joins the slave revolt. What follows is a saga of war, honour, blood and loyalty as the might of Rome closes in on Spartacus and his companions.
“Darman has researched this novel extremely well, as one would expect with his military non-fiction background. This detail is meshed with great story telling which flows along with great gusto. Less for the fact that this book is about a Parthian rather than a Roman, I would describe it as a ‘Roman Sharpe’. Darman’s style is similar to and as good as Bernard Cornwell’s, one of my favourite authors.”
British Army Rumour Service review, June 2011
‘The Parthian’ is the firsth volume in the Parthian Chronicles. A map of the Parthian Empire in the 1st century BC can be found on the maps page of this website.
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The Parthian’ to be published by Eksmo, one of Russia’s largest publishing houses, in December 2011
