(marcus tullius)

Marcus Cicero assumes control of the Roman Republic only to face treachery, violence, and acts of treason while he struggles to maintain the sanctity of the republic, to ward off assassination attempts, and to prevent a Roman Senator, Gaius Julius Caesar, from taking over and turning Rome into a dictatorship.

On a cold November morning Tiro opens the door to a bedraggled stranger begging for help. The man claims that only the great senator Marcus Cicero, one of Rome's most ambitious lawyers and spellbinding orators, can bring him justice in a crooked society. Cicero is soon plunged into a courtroom drama and the beginning of a quest for political glory.