A Man at Arms
by Steven Pressfield
A mercenary in Roman Judea hired to intercept a letter from Paul to the Corinthians, and the girl and boy who change his mission. Pressfield's late novel on the warrior's turn to something beyond war.
Read it if…
you want a Pressfield novel about conscience.
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Skip it if…
you want his war spectacles.
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Three things you will actually use
- Even the hardest man can turn.
- Protect the weak; that is the code.
- Love is the stronger discipline.
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A warrior's conscience.
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