"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.
He divides his time between Berkeley, California, and Austin, Texas..
Saylor was born in Texas and graduated with high honors from The University of Texas at Austin, where he studied history and classics.
He has appeared as an on-air expert on Roman history and life on The History Channel.
About the Author: Steven Saylor is the author of the long running Roma Sub Rosa series featuring Gordianus the Finder, as well as the New York Times bestselling novel, Roma and its follow-up, Empire .
On first publication back in 1994, Catilina\'s Riddle was a finalist for the Hammet Award.
Shrewdly depicting deadly political maneuverings, this addictive mystery also displays the author\'s firm grasp of history and human character.
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.
Claiming that Catilina plans an uprising if he loses the race, Cicero asks Gordianus to keep a watchful eye on the radical.
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.
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. "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
