Marcus Valerius Aquila has scarcely landed in Britannia when he has to run for his life - condemned to dishonorable death by power-crazed emperor Commodus. The plan is to take a new name, serve in an obscure regiment on Hadrian's Wall and lie low until he can hope for justice. Then a rebel army sweeps down from the wastes north of the Wall, and Marcus has to prove he's hard enough to lead a century in the front line of a brutal, violent war.
- ISBN10 034099858X
- ISBN13 9780340998588
- Publish Date 4 March 2010 (first published 20 August 2009)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 April 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Imprint Hodder Paperback
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 416
- Language English