The Bull Slayer
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:30th Jan '14
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Roman governor Pliny the Younger faces betrayal and death in a remote frontier province.
CORRUPTION, BETRAYAL, MURDER: games the Romans play best. A turbulent frontier province, rotten with corruption and seething with hatred of Rome – a barbarian god whose devotees may include a murderer – a clever and unscrupulous faith healer who knows everyone's secrets – a boy who struggles toward manhood though stricken with the Sacred Disease: these are the elements in a mystery that Pliny, newly appointed governor of Bithynia, confronts when a high Roman official is found murdered on a desolate hillside, miles from the capital.
Roman Games is brilliant. A brutal vision of Rome, rigid with hierarchy and fear. -- Robert Fabbri
Macbain leads the reader down the mean and dirty streets of Rome. Sure to appeal to fans of Steven Saylor * Library Journal *
Inspired... A highly atmospheric and absorbing murder mystery that builds to an earthshaking climax. -- Steven Saylor
ISBN: 9781781852613
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288 pages