Book description
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.
