The bestselling author of THE GLADIATOR returns with another action-packed Roman adventure. When the actions of a rebel gladiator in Egypt threaten the stability of the Roman Empire, Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro know he must be stopped. The locals are holding the Romans responsible for the attacks Ajax and his crew have been making along the coast and now Egypt is dangerously volatile. Tasked with tracking and defeating the renegade, they are soon hot on Ajax s trail, determined to destroy the enemy. But will the strength of a psychotically fatalist gladiator and his new-found allies, defeat the Roman warriors?