The Jupiter Myth
Pages: 336
|Published: 1 Jan 2002
Description
Stuck in the Roman outpost of Londinium, Marcus Didius Falco is ready to pack up his family and go home. . . until the corpse of a nobleman turns up, head down, in a well behind a local tavern. The dead man turns out to be a close friend of the king and suddenly Falco has a murder case to solve before he can get out of town. Taking on the British tradition of the pub crawl, he soon gets a major hangover -- along with a tip that the victim had dealings with dangerous gangsters. Now hot on the trail of the killer; Falco delves deeper into the city's demimonde and winds up in an arena full of female gladiators. Here, among outcasts and rogues, Falco discovers comradeship, honor. . . and, with his own life hanging in the balance, someone willing to die for a friend.
