Battered, bloody, and burning up from within- Lucius Servilius Quintus is the only survivor of the republic’s 14th Legion “Libertavictrix.” Now, as the thousand-year-old republic faces its greatest threat at the hands of the traitor general Mariomajorax, Quintus must rebuild his shattered cohort with the help of the debauched second-in-command Ventius Agricola and five hundred freed slaves. But, as the two men come to blows over their differences in command, they are drawn deeper into a plot that may shake the foundations of the very republic they are sworn to defend.

What is more honorable? To die as a hero, or to live on like a scoundrel to win the fight another day?