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SPQR VI: Nobody Loves a Centurion

A Mystery

The SPQR Roman Mysteries (Volume 6)

Author: John Maddox Roberts

SPQR VI: Nobody Loves a Centurion

SPQR VI: Nobody Loves a Centurion

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Like so many young men in later generations, Roman playboy/detective Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger is faced with the necessity of serving in his country's armed forces. Since a dangerous...

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288
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On Sale
10/10/2003

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Like so many young men in later generations, Roman playboy/detective Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger is faced with the necessity of serving in his country's armed forces. Since a dangerous enemy has become powerful in the politics of Rome, Decius is just as well out of the city for a while. He sets out to join Caesar in Gaul, where the general has come and seen, but has as yet not been able to conquer.

The occupying Roman army is at a standstill when Decius shows up in full parade regalia (much to the amusement of the more informally uniformed veterans) and accompanied only by his young personal slave. Caesar sets him the task of discovering who murdered one of his centurions, a cruel and unfair officer feared and hated by every man of the one hundred soldiers under him. A further prod to Decius is that the main suspect is a youth whose father is a close friend of the Metellus family. With Caesar's decree that another killer be found in a matter of hours or the young man dies, Decius has his work cut out for him.

John Maddox Roberts's series set in the first century A.D. vividly brings to readers a strong sense of the everyday life of the ancient Romans in the context of our own.

Imprint Publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

ISBN

9780312320195

In The News

“Highly entertaining. The character are convincing, the pacing rolls along at double-time, and the historical details-from military minutia to the particulars of daily life in Casesar's era-cannot fail to appeal.” —Tampa Tribune and Times on the hardcover edition of SPQR VI: Nobody Loves a Centurion

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SPQR VI: Nobody Loves a Centurion

SPQR VI: Nobody Loves a Centurion

$20.99