With Emperor Augustus ailing, Marcus Agrippa sends a disgraced centurion, Curtius Rufus, to rescue the kidnaped daughter of a legate, but Rufus soon realizes that his mission is part of the power struggle for Augustus' successor.
Wallace Breem (1926-1990) entered the Indian Army Officers Training School in 1944 and later joined a crack regiment of the North West Frontier Force. After the war, he eventually joined the library staff of the Honorable Society of the Inner Temple. Breem wrote The Legate's Daughter in 1974. His other novels include Eagle in the Snow (1970) and The Leopard and the Cliff (1978).