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Arms of Nemesis

2008-05-13 Fiction
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Release : 2008-05-13
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Book Synopsis Arms of Nemesis by : Steven Saylor

Download or read book Arms of Nemesis written by Steven Saylor. This book was released on 2008-05-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hideously disfigured body was found in the atrium. The only clues are a blood-soaked cloak, and, carved into the stone at the corpse's feet, the word Sparta. The murdered man was the overseer of Marcus Crassus's estate, apparently killed by two runaway slaves bent on joining Spartacus's revolt. In response to the murder, the wealthy, powerful Crassus vows to honor an ancient law and kill his ninety-nine remaining slaves in three days. Now Gordianus the Finder has been summoned from Rome by a mysterious client to find out the truth about the murder before the three days are up. Enmeshed in a world of desperate slaves and duplicitous masters, extravagant feasts and sordid secrets, Gordianus must risk all he loves, including his life, to stop a senseless slaughter-and save the very future of Rome itself.

Catilina's Riddle

2007-04-01 Fiction
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Release : 2007-04-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 629/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Catilina's Riddle by : Steven Saylor

Download or read book Catilina's Riddle written by Steven Saylor. This book was released on 2007-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Saylor rivals Robert Graves in his knack for making the classical world come alive." --(ortland) Oregonian "Engrossing...Ironic and satisfying." -- San Francisco Chronicle The third in Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa novels featuring Gordianus the Finder. Gordianus, disillusioned by the corruption of Rome circa 63 B.C., has fled the city with his family to live on a farm in the Etruscan countryside. But this bucolic life is disrupted by the machinations and murderous plots of two politicians: Roman consul Cicero, Gordianus's longtime patron, and populist senator Catilina, Cicero's political rival and a candidate to replace him in the annual elections for consul. Claiming that Catilina plans an uprising if he loses the race, Cicero asks Gordianus to keep a watchful eye on the radical. Although he distrusts both men, Gordianus is forced into the center of the power struggle when his six-year-old daughter Diana finds a headless corpse in their stable. Shrewdly depicting deadly political maneuverings, this addictive mystery also displays the author's firm grasp of history and human character. On first publication back in 1994, Catilina's Riddle was a finalist for the Hammet Award.

Arms of Nemesis

2008-05-13 Fiction
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Release : 2008-05-13
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 237/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Arms of Nemesis by : Steven Saylor

Download or read book Arms of Nemesis written by Steven Saylor. This book was released on 2008-05-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordianus the Finder is called to a great Villa to investigate the death of the overseer by two slaves.

The House of the Vestals

2010-01-05 Fiction
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Release : 2010-01-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 412/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The House of the Vestals by : Steven Saylor

Download or read book The House of the Vestals written by Steven Saylor. This book was released on 2010-01-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine crime stories featuring Gordianus the Finder, a detective in ancient Rome who marries his slave. Part mystery, part a social history of the period from the end of Sulla's dictatorship to the Spartacan slave revolt.

The Silver Pigs

2006-10-03 Fiction
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Release : 2006-10-03
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 933/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Silver Pigs by : Lindsey Davis

Download or read book The Silver Pigs written by Lindsey Davis. This book was released on 2006-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silver Pigs is Lindsey Davis' classic novel, which introduced readers around the world to Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer with a knack for trouble, a tendency for bad luck, and a frequently inconvenient drive for justice. When Marcus Didius Falco, a Roman "informer" who has a nose for trouble that's sharper than most, encounters Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately all is not right with the pretty girl. She confesses to him that she is fleeing for her life, and Falco makes the rash decision to rescue her—a decision he will come to regret. For Sosia bears a heavy burden: as heavy as a pile of stolen Imperial ingots, in fact. Matters just get more complicated when Falco meets Helena Justina, a Senator's daughter who is connected to the very same traitors he has sworn to expose. Soon Falco finds himself swept from the perilous back alleys of Ancient Rome to the silver mines of distant Britain—and up against a cabal of traitors with blood on their hands and no compunction whatsoever to do away with a snooping plebe like Falco....

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