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It is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. The days are short, the nights are for wild parties. A general has captured a famous enemy of Rome and brings her home to adorn his Triumph as a ritual sacrifice. The logistics go wrong: she acquires a mystery illness-then a young man is horrendously murdered and she escapes from house arrest.
Marcus Didius Falco is pitted against his old rival, the Chief Spy Anacrites, in a race to find the fugitive before...
5) Nemesis
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342 pages : map ; 25 cm.
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When a pair of his father's associates disappear under suspicious circumstances, informer Marcus Didius Falco of A.D. 77 Rome investigates allegations of a feud involving a group of notorious freedmen, who are receiving high-level protection from corruptrulers.
6) Alexandria
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338 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
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In A.D. 77, Marcus Didius Falco, agent to the Emperor Vespasian, investigates the mysterious death of the head librarian of the world-famous library of Alexandria, bringing him into immediate conflict with the darker side of academic life.
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When Falco encounters the young and very pretty Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately that there is something amiss. When she confesses that she is fleeing for her life, Falco offers to help her, and in doing so, he gets himself mixed up in a deadly plot involving stolen ingots, dangerous and dark political machinations, and most hazardous of all, one Helena Justina, a brash, indomitable senator's daughter connected to the very traitors...
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Falco volume 16
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Falco has been asked to look for Infamia, the gossip columnist for the Daily Gazette, who has gone missing while on a drunken vacation in the town of Ostia. Soon, however, Falco's inquiries lead him into the world of piracy. Could pirates have kidnapped Infamia? And if so, is he still alive?
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