A Master Of The Genre’ The Times 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.