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Blackmail, corruption, treachery, murder--the glory that was Rome. In this Edgar Award-nominated mystery, John Maddox Roberts takes readers back to a Rome filled with violence and evil. Vicious gangs ruled the streets of Crassus and Pompey, routinely preying on plebeian and patrician alike, so the garroting of a lowly ex-slaved and the disembowelment of a foreign merchant in the dangerous Subura district seemed of little consequence to the Roman hierarchy. But Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger--highborn commander of the local "vigiles"--was determined to investigate. Despite official apathy, brazen bribes, and sinister threates, Decius uncovers a world of corruption at the highest levels of his government that threatens to destroy him and the government he serves.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Crime & mystery Historical mysteries

• Full title: Spqr I
• Subtitle: The Kings Gambit
• Author: John Maddox Roberts
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780312277055
• ISBN: 0312277059
• ID: 10978850
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Weight: 344 g
• Dimensions: 143 × 249 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. August 2001

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