The First Wall

By Ben Russell

A zombie horde is closing on Rome's frontier. Concordia has to make every yard of ground count.**

When traffic vanishes from the northern road, Roman engineer Marco rides out with a patrol. Neither he nor the soldiers know that the dead are walking. A routine investigation becomes a fight to get home-and the beginning of a siege unlike any Rome has faced.

Under his commander's orders, Marco helps turn a living town into a fortress. Concealed ditches and falling stone give the shield line a chance. Roman artillery covers crews working within reach of the horde. Each success buys time to bring another family home.

But the bodies remain where they fall, filling the traps and narrowing the safe routes. The defenses that worked yesterday may help the dead reach the walls tonight.

With soldiers stretched across the perimeter and people still beyond it, Marco must learn when to hold his ground-and when protecting lives means giving it up.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HP8Q865S
• ISBN13: 9798165329241
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"