It is spring 45 AD and centurions Macro and Cato, dismissed from the Second Legion in Britain, are trapped in Rome, waiting for their involvement in the death of a fellow officer to be investigated. It is then that the imperial secretary, the devious Narcissus, makes them an offer they can't refuse.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Macro, Lucius Cornelius (Fictitious character), Fiction.
Romans-- Great Britain, Fiction.
Armed Forces-- Officers.
Macro, Lucius Cornelius (Fictitious character)
Romans.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Great Britain, History, Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D., Fiction.