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Rome, exhausted by fear and denunciations during the dictatorship of Sulla... Young Cicero takes on the defense of a man accused of murdering his own father. To find out the truth, he turns to Gordian, a private investigator, who, step by step, unravels the case that leads to influential and dangerous people.
"Roman Blood" is a fascinating historical detective and a penetrating portrait of the Republic at the turn of the eras. Stephen Saylor recreates ancient Rome with documentary accuracy and at the same time fills it with the living voices, passions and fears of people whose fate is decided in the shadow of big politics. On the pages of the first novel in the Roma sub Rosa series, the reader, together with Gordian, must establish who is the victim here and who is the real criminal...