THE BLADE IN INDIA

The Blade (It is book 1 of a series titles: The Byzantine Chronicles) With nothing but a sword and a gritty determination to live, Woden, the son of a Germanic ex-slave from the land of the steppe, stumbles into the far reaches of the eighth-century empire of Byzantium. He quickly learns that a soldier's skills and the right blend of ruthlessness, cunning, and luck will win him women, wealth, status, and power. https://www.amazon.com/Blade-Byzantine-Chronicles-John-Johnson/dp/194516929X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=