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The year is 63 BC, and Gordianus the Finder unexpectedly achieves the dream of every Roman: owning a farm in the Etruscan countryside. Vowing to leave behind the problem of Rome, he abandons the city, taking his family with him. This bucolic life, however, is disrupted by the machinations and murderous plots of two politicians. When Gordianus' longtime patron Cicero attains his lifelong dream of a desired consulship, he urgently demands a favor of Gordianus: his help in keeping watch on a radical populist senator, Catilina - Cicero's political competitor and a prospect to replace him in the total annual elections. Against his will, Gordianus detects himself drawn deeper and deeper into a maelstrom of deceit and intrigue, uncertain of the hazards and even more uncertain of where his true allegiance is. When his six-year-old girl Diana detects a headless corpse in their stable, Gordianus is confronted with the deadliest unknown of his profession. Shrewdly depicting lethal political maneuverings, this addictive unknown also displays the author's firm grasp of background and human personality. Steven Saylor is a freelance writer, editor, and the writer of novels set in historic Rome. He examined background at the School of Tx at Austin. His writing has made an appearance in the Threepenny Review, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and the Magazine of Illusion and Knowledge Fiction. He lives in Berkeley, California, and Austin, Tx.
