Steven Saylor: The Venus Throw, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Venus Throw
- A Mystery of Ancient Rome
- Publisher:
- St. Martins Press-3PL, 12/2008
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780312539672
- Item number:
- 5300672
- Volume:
- 370 Pages
- Weight:
- 521 g
- Format:
- 216 x 140 mm
- Thickness:
- 21 mm
- Release date:
- 23.12.2008
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
"Finely etched historical background . . . The finest flower yet of Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa Series."-Kirkus Reviews
On a chill January evening in 56 B. C. , two strange visitors to Rome--an Egyptian ambassador and a eunuch priest--seek out Gordianus the Finder whose specialty is solving murders. But the ambassador, a philosopher named Dio, has come to ask for something Gordianus cannot give--help in staying alive. Before the night is out, he will be murdered.
Now Gordianus begins his most dangerous case. Hired to investigate Dio's death by a beautiful woman with a scandalous reputation, he will follow a trail of political intrigue into the highest circles of power and the city's most hidden arenas of debauchery. There Gordianus will learn nothing is as it seems--not the damning evidence he uncovers, not the suspect he sends to trial, not even the real truth behind Dio's death which lies in secrets--not of state, but of the heart.
