'A master of the genre' The Times
The Tungrian auxiliary cohorts return to Hadrian's Wall after their
successful Dacian campaign, only to find Britannia in chaos. The legions
are overstretched, struggling to man the forts of the northern frontier
in the face of increasing barbarian resistance.
The Tungrians are the only soldiers who can be sent into the northern
wastes, far beyond the long abandoned wall built by Antoninus, where a
lost symbol of imperial power of the Sixth Victorious Legion is reputed
to await them. Protected by an impassable swamp and hidden in a fortress
atop a high mountain, the eagle of the Sixth legion must be recovered if
the legion is to survive.
Marcus and his men must penetrate the heart of the enemy's strength,
ghosting through a deadly wilderness patrolled by vicious huntresses
before breaching the walls of the Fang, an all-but-impregnable fort, if
they are to rescue the legion's venerated standard. If successful their
escape will be twice as perilous, with the might of a barbarian tribe at
their heels.