Blackmail, corruption, treachery, murder--the glory that was Rome.
But Decius Caecilius.
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.
In this Edgar Award-nominated mystery, John Maddox Roberts takes readers back to a Rome filled with violence and evil.
Blackmail, corruption, treachery, murder--the glory that was Rome