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SPQR I: The King's Gambit | [John Maddox Roberts]
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SPQR I: The King's Gambit

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  • by John Maddox Roberts
  • Narrated by Simon Vance
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  • LENGTH
    7 hrs and 18 mins
  • RELEASE DATE
    08/07/2008
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In this Edgar Award-nominated mystery, John Maddox Roberts takes listeners back to a Rome filled with violence and evil. Vicious gangs ruled the streets of Crassus and Pompey, routinely preying on plebeian and patrician alike. So the garroting of a lowly ex-slave and the disembowelment of a foreign merchant in the dangerous Subura district seemed of little consequence to the Roman hierarchy.

But Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger, highborn commander of the local vigiles, was determined to investigate. Despite official apathy, brazen bribes, and sinister threats, Decius uncovers a world of corruption at the highest levels of his government that threatens to destroy him and the government he serves.

©1990 John Maddox Roberts; (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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  • By Rogayah
    Reading, United Kingdom
    27/11/08
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    "A true Roman"

    This was an exciting introduction to this series. It was enjoyable to learn more about Roman and the Republic before the take over by Julius Ceasar and the like. It was not a nice place but John Maddox Roberts brings the story, the time and the place alive.

    I shall look out for more from this author who has made a piece of Roman history entertaining and enjoyable. A real treat. A good narrator too.

    2 of 3 people found this review helpful
  • By Bibliophile
    Cumbria
    18/04/11
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    "Welcome to another Roman"

    There seems to be endless interest in the Roman Empire, but Roberts is a welcome addition to the field. His hero is rather similar to that of Lindsey Davis and others, but quite sympathetic, and Roberts has a nice eye for what was happening in Rome, bringing in some of the important characters as the bit parts they would have been at the time.
    Simon Vance reads the character well and it is good to know that there is at least one more to carry on what I hope will be a long series

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