The Casca Series by Barry Sadler & Tony Roberts. Ebooks in Epub. Rare!!!

The Casca Series by Barry Sadler & Tony Roberts. Ebooks in Epub. Rare!!!

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Casca is a series of historical fantasy novels created by author Barry Sadler in 1979. The stories revolve around the exploits of Casca Rufio Longinus, the Roman legionary who drove the Holy Lance into the side of Jesus Christ on Golgotha. As a result of this action, Casca is cursed with immortality, and he is to wander the Earth aimlessly, always as a soldier, until the Second Coming. The character is loosely based on the Longinus legend of Christianity.

Sadler wrote some of the early novels in the series while the others were assigned to ghostwriters. When Sadler died in 1989, the series was handed off to other writers. Two subsequent novels, The Liberator and The Defiant, were written by Paul Dengelegi. The current author, Tony Roberts, has written every new entry in the series since 2006, excluding Immortal Dragon and The Outlaw, which were written by Michael B. Goodwin. Immortal Dragon and The Outlaw were removed from the series in 2013 over allegations of plagiarism. An unauthorized audiobook, Casca: The Outcast, was written by Paul Dengelegi in 2004.

Casca Rufio Longinus grew up in Etruria in the village of Falerno. After his family dies of plague, he enlists in the 7th Legion at either Messilia or Livorno. He is sent to the Jerusalem garrison where eventually he is assigned to the execution detail for three prisoners, one of whom is Jesus.

At Golgotha, Casca stabs Jesus with his spear in an attempt to relieve Jesus of his pain and suffering. Jesus condemns Casca by saying, "Soldier, you are content with what you are. Then that you shall remain until we meet again. As I go now to My Father, you must one day come to Me." As He dies, blood from his wound trickles down Casca's spear and onto his hand, and when Casca unthinkingly wipes his mouth, he tastes the blood. His body begins to convulse in pain but he recovers. 

Some time later, in an altercation with his superior officer over the affections of a dancing girl, Casca is stabbed in the stomach. Thinking himself mortally wounded, Casca kills the officer, and is promptly arrested and imprisoned. The next morning, when he appears to be merely scratched, he is sentenced to be caned, then thrown out of the legion, and sentenced to slavery as a miner. Years pass, and Casca realizes he does not age. He feels all the pain of the many beatings he endures, and is soon covered with scars, but his internal damage heals, often overnight. 

After many years in the mine, he is then sold to be a gladiator. Concealing his ability to heal miraculously, Casca rises through the gladitorial ranks, eventually gaining his freedom from Emperor Nero himself. However, after insulting Nero's effigy during a drunken rant, he is sold as a galley slave. Eventually he is put on a war galley, and during a sea battle, his vessel begins taking on water. Desperate to escape lest he be chained to a sunken ship for eternity, Casca breaks free, and in the confusion, manages to escape. 

With no marketable skills but those of battle, Casca is doomed to remain a soldier until the Second Coming. He finds himself joining one armed force after another, always moving on before his immortality is discovered. For the rest of the series, Casca is seen fighting in numerous wars and famous engagements, including Cortez's conquest of Mexico and the battle of Điện Biên Phủ. He fights most often as a mercenary; for ideals, rather than nationalism, having joined the Wehrmacht, the Confederate States Army, the French Foreign Legion, the Byzantine Empire, the Red Army, and more, as the years go by.

A secret cult of zealots, the Brotherhood of the Lamb, plague him throughout history. Having witnessed the Crucifixion and managing to acquire Casca's spear, which they worship, they are devoted to two things: keeping track of Casca, so they can be present to meet Jesus when He returns, and torturing Casca whenever they can, for killing Jesus in the first place.

Over the course of the series, Casca meets numerous famous historical figures, such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Adolf Hitler, Attila the Hun, Blackbeard, Genghis Khan, Marco Polo, Robert E. Lee, George Washington, and Muhammad, among others.

From January 2014, the series was put into e-book format, and all existing books in the series up to 2014 (with the exception of The Liberator, The Defiant, Immortal Dragon) were available in Kindle format by June 2014.

The Casca Series:

1. The Eternal Mercenary (1979)

2. God of Death (1979)

3. The War Lord (1980)

4. The Panzer Soldier (1980)

5. The Barbarian (1981)

6. The Persian (1982)

7. The Damned (1982)

8. Soldier of Fortune (1983)

9. The Sentinel (1983)

10. The Conquistador (1984)

11. The Legionnaire (1984)

12. The African Mercenary (1984)

13. The Assassin (1985)

14. The Phoenix (1985)

15. The Pirate (1985)

16. Desert Mercenary (1986)

17. The Warrior (1987)

18. The Cursed (1987)

19. The Samurai (1988)

20. Soldier of Gideon (1988)

21. The Trench Soldier (1989)

22. The Mongol (1990)

25. Halls of Montezuma (2006)

26. Johnny Reb (2007)

27. The Confederate (2008)

28. The Avenger (2008)

30. Napoleon's Soldier (2009)

31. The Conqueror (2009)

32. The Anzac (2010)

33. The Outlaw (2010)

34. Devil's Horseman (2010)

35. Sword of the Brotherhood (2011)

36. The Minuteman (2011)

37. Roman Mercenary (2012)

38. The Continental (2012)

39. The Crusader (2013)

40. Blitzkrieg (2014)

41. The Longbowman (2014)

42. Barbarossa (2015)

43. Scourge of Asia (2015)

44. Balkan Mercenary (2016)

45. Emperor's Mercenary (2016)

46. The Cavalryman (2017)

47. The Viking (2017)

48. The Austrian (2018)

49. The Lombard (2018)

50. The Commissar (2019)

51. The Saracen (2019)

52. The Rough Rider (2020)

53. The Last Defender (2020)

P.S. Books N:23, 24, 29 not available in Epub format!