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A Welcome from Sam Barone

This is my web site, dedicated to the Eskkar Saga.  Historical fiction set in the early Bronze Age, these stories and adventures follow the lives of Eskkar, Trella, and all those other men and women struggling to build the world’s first empire.

Please visit my Guest Book. I look forward to your comments and suggestions, and you may enjoy your fellow readers’ remarks.  As the author is playing at web master, I would also appreciate your input on my site.
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Readers please note - Quest For Honour is a reprint of Conflict of Empires
by my UK publisher Century/Arrow. It is not a new Eskkar and Trella story.

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Book I  - Eskkar & Trella - The Beginning - Available January 2012 at Amazon.com as a Kindle ebook and a print edition! Follow Eskkar as he grows from a boy to a warrior, and read the story of Trella’s misfortunes. Cover at right ==>

Book II  - Dawn of Empire -  the first to be published (2006). Eskkar and Trella’s rise to power, the building of the great wall, and the first steps down the road to civilization and empire.

Book III - Empire Rising -  published next (2007). Picks up the action where Dawn of Empire leaves off, and continues the story of the struggles to save mankind’s first walled city. 

Book IV - Conflict of Empires - published in 2010. Two years after Empire Rising, Eskkar and Trella build the world’s first professional army in a desperate effort to save their city. Available in the UK. Available in US as Quest For Honor on Kindle.

Book V  - Battle for Empire - available summer 2012. The final stories of Eskkar, Trella, their son Sargon, and grandson Escander.
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Interested in the backgrounds, my personal thoughts, historical facts, and actual excerpts from any of the  stories? Follow the links to learn more . . . including the prolog and first chapter of Eskkar & Trella - The Beginning, about Eskkar’s journey from boy to wandering mercenary as he travels the Land Between the Rivers, always struggling to stay alive.

Winner 2010 Literary Contest 
Arizona Authors Association 
First Prize - Published Fiction
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Two years after Empire Rising, Eskkar and Trella build the world’s first professional army in a desperate effort to save their city.

Cover illustration by
Steve Stone

Conflict of Empires
    Released in US as Quest For Honour
                       April 2011
Published by Century/Arrow, a division of Random House

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Author at a private book signing in Arizona 2009

Thanks again for visiting. Please feel free to contact me with ideas, suggestions, or just to say hello, either by email or through the Guest Book. I do appreciate hearing from interested readers and will reply to each message.  It may take a few days, so please be patient. 

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Note:  Please don’t forget to include the name of one of the books in the email subject line. Otherwise, my spam filter most likely will delete your message. And please, no attachments.
                                                                                               

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