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Catilina's Riddle
Steven Saylor
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The year is 63BC, and Gordianus the Finder unexpectedly achieves the dream of every Roman - a farm in the Etruscan countryside. Vowinig to leave behind the corruption and intrigue of Rome, he abandons the city, taking his family with him.
Gordianus' longtime patron, Cicero, has also achieved the dram of his lifetime - a much coveted consulship, Rome's highest elected office. Urgently, he requests a favour of Gordianus: his help in keeping watch on a radical populist senator, Catilina, suspected of conspiring against the state. Against his will, Gordianus finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a web of deceit, intrigute and murder.
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Praise for Catilina's Riddle
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A sweeping and marvellously evocative story, with page after page of authentic detail - BooklistIt is Saylor's particular skill to sketch the political intrigues of the time with great authenticity... the sense that murky, terrible things are moving secretly beneath the surface of a fairly benign exterior increases in this brilliant novel - San Francisco Review of BooksI can't say enough good things about Saylor's style, his scholarship or his mastery of the period. - The Poisoned PenReader's will escape with pleasure into this lush, meticulously researched world of ancient Rome. - Christian Science MonitorReally excellent...an enthralling recreation of time and place, fascinating storytelling.
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