**'A master of the genre' *The Times
The Tungrians have no sooner returned to Rome than they find themselves
tasked with a very different mission to their desperate exploits in
Parthia.
Ordered to cross the river Rhenus into barbarian Germany and capture a
tribal priestess who may be the most dangerous person on the empire's
northern border, they are soon subject to the machinations of an old
enemy who will stop at nothing to sabotage their plans before they have
even set foot on the river's eastern bank.
But after their Roman enemy is neutralised they face a challenge greater
still.
With two of the Bructeri tribe's greatest treasures in their hands they
must regain Roman territory by crossing the unforgiving wilderness that
was the graveyard of Roman imperial strategy two hundred years before.
And capture by the Bructeri's vengeful chieftain and his warband can
only end in one way - a horrific sacrificial death on the tribe's altar
of blood.