The King's Gambit (SPQR I)
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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 threa
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Manufacturer: Minotaur Books
Release date: 24 August 1990
ISBN-10 : 0312277059 | ISBN-13: 9780312277055
Release date: 24 August 1990
ISBN-10 : 0312277059 | ISBN-13: 9780312277055
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