The Kings Gambit - John Maddox Roberts
epub | 506.44 KB | English | Author :John Maddox Roberts | 9780312277055 | 2007 | St. Martin's Press

Book Description :

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.

Category : | Historical Mysteries, Historical Mystery, Private Investigator Mysteries