Lieutenant of the FSB Spartak Gladkov and the oligarch Mark Krassovsky are sworn enemies. For years, the lieutenant has been trying to catch the oligarch selling military technologies on the black market. And finally, Gladkov catches Krassovsky red-handed while he is handing over the newest REB installation to terrorists. During the ensuing firefight, a bullet hits the device—and… Spartak finds himself in the distant past, seventy years before our era.
It is the final year of the gladiators’ uprising. It has failed—hunger, cold, and a split are threatening total disaster, while the slaves are locked up on the Regian peninsula. Will the young lieutenant be able to raise the fighting spirit of the rebels? Can the updated Spartak, using the combat experience of special units from the 21st century, turn the course of the war? And what will happen when Gladkov learns that behind the guise of the victorious Roman commander Mark Crassus hides his old enemy?