Casca #03: War Lord

by Barry Sadler

Book Overview

Book by Barry Sadler This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0441093639
• ISBN13: 9780441093632
• Release Date: May 1982
• Publisher: Jove Books
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Better than excellent

I was totally thrilled reading this book. The creation of the Casca Character was a great idea. I can't wait to read more adventures of Casca. Fortunately I have a substantial stack of books available to me. Thank you hon.

Chinese warlord

We pick up Casca's story from the end of God of Death where he's fallen overboard and is eventually picked up by a Roman trader and taken to Britannia. Becoming friends with the Roman who saved him, Casca travels to Rome and finds it a depressing place, corrupt and degenerate. He goes east to Byzantium and then travels on his own into Asia and picks up a boy called Jugotai who eventually saves Casca's hand after it gets chopped off. Casca is set on traveling to China where Shiu Lao Tze came from and after an epic journey through the Himalayas gets there and is enrolled into the Emperor's army. After saving his life, Casca is made a high officer at Court but falls foul of the jealous Empress who buries him alive. Coming to after 7 years or so and freed thanks to an earthquake, Casca decides to head back west. A great story, runs along at fast pace, tells a tale without becoming bogged down with irrelevancies. Certainly one of the best in the series.

The Warlord

This is a great story, one of Sadler's best. It picks up with Casca being fished out of the sea and taken to Roman Britain and he gets laid by dozens of whores. Traveling onto Rome itself he sees how the empire has declined and become rotten, something I think we all relate to today with our own societies corrupting from within. After that he goes east and picks up a wild boy called Jugotai. Casca then bumps into the Brotherhood, the first time they are mentioned, and this is where we read why they are after him. Jugotai rescues him and sews on his amputated hand (nice!!) and he parts ways with the boy and goes on alone to China where he saves a young woman from being raped by Huns. Later, he meets with her again and she's the emperor's wife. The later part of the book deals with Casca serving in the Chinese court and fighting the Huns. Things turn nasty with the empress when she wants his secret of eternal life. Great ending and worth the wait. This is how an action adventure should be written, concise, descriptive and flowing. Something Paul Dengelegi should have taken note of before writing his two novels of trash.

Casca's oriental adventure

This was my first CASCA book I ever read and it had me hooked right away. Its a good story of a man journeying east to China to serve in the court of the Emperor Tzin. There's plenty of action, betrayal and humour scattered amongst the fighting to give it a well balanced feel. I particularly liked the passages referring to his stay in the inn at Dubrae. This follows on from God of Death so read that one before this in order to get the context of this story right.

CASCA IS AWESOME!

yOU HAVE JUST GOT TO READ THIS STUFF, ITS SIMPLY GREAT WRITING FROM AN AUTHOR WHO KNOWS WAR AND BEEN THERE.