With Titus Caesar in pursuit of his girlfriend Helena, Marcus Didius Falco is sent out of the way on an undercover mission to Roman Germany, where he must exercise his diplomatic skills on a rebel chieftain who has gone undercover The Fourteenth Legion, without a commander, are after Falco's blood in revenge for old grudges and Falco has found two bodies Baffled, he crosses into Barbarian territory to trace a high ranking officer, where every rustling leaf heralds danger