60th year of our era . Britain is in turmoil. Boudica rebel leader learned the taste of victory over a squad of hardened veterans in Kamulodunum. Warned of a rapidly spreading mutiny, Lieutenant Suetonius leads his army to a threatened Londinium with a horse escort led by Prefect Cato. It soon becomes terrifyingly clear that the province of Britain is sinking into chaos and panic, and the ranks of Boudicca are being replenished with more and more British warriors. Both Cato and Suetonius are bitterly aware that too little has been done to prepare to resist a full-scale uprising. From Londinium come disappointing news. Centurion Macron is among the missing after the massacre in Kamulodunum . Has Cato's comrade and friend accepted his last fight?Caught in the face of disaster, Cato prepares his next move. Does he dare to hope that Macron wounded in battle, but not broken will escape from the bloodthirsty rebels? After all, there is only one person who Cato will be able to fully trust in the course of the most important military campaign in his life. And the future of the Empire in Britain hangs in the balance...