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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 helping 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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Book I  - In The Beginning - just finished, not yet published. Read a few stories about Eskkar as a boy and young man, and Trella’s misfortunes. Follow the link. And please let me know what you think of these stories.

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. Now available in the UK. Available in the USA March 2010.

Book V  - Battle for Empire - still being written. 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 Conflict of Empires or any of the other stories? Follow the links to learn more . . . including some unpublished stories from In The Beginning about the fight to build and defend mankind’s first walled village, and the world’s first empire.

Latest Release 2010
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UK Century’s dramatic cover
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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
      UK release  04 February 2010
      US release  March 2010
Published by Century/Arrow, a division of Random House

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. 

                                                  Email  barone@sambarone.com

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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