From the bestselling author of CENTURION & THE GLADIATOR comes the action-packed tenth novel in Simon Scarrow's Roman series. When the actions of a rebel gladiator in Egypt threaten the stability of the Roman Empire Prefect Cato & Centurion Macro know he must be stopped. The locals are holding the Romans responsible for the attacks & Ajax's crew have been making along the coast & now Egypt is dangerously volatile. Tasked with tracking & defeating the renegade Cato & Macro are soon hot on Ajax's trail determined to destroy the enemy. But will the strength of a psychotically fatalist gladiator & his new-found allies hell-bent on destruction defeat the Roman warriors?