Publisher's Synopsis
Vindobona, Germania, winter 897 after the founding of Rome.
A cold winter had struck on the borders of Germania. The barbarians of these northern lands forgotten by the Gods were constantly plotting and harassing us. The Emperor himself came to the battlefront and started preparing his summer campaign. But, unlike my fellow legionaries of the Legio X Gemina, this story was not going to be of any importance to me. Fate had decided otherwise. Mars and Jupiter would soon be guiding me along an entirely different path, through the shadows and depths of Rome, the whole Empire, and even beyond.Only a chosen few are allowed to take that path at the risk of their own lives. The path taken by the frumentarius. My path...
