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The Catiline Conspiracy

Yazan: John Maddox Roberts
Seslendiren: John Lee
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It was a summer of glorious triumph for the mighty Roman Republic. Her invincible legions had brought all foreign enemies to their knees. But in Rome there was no peace. The streets were flooded with the blood of murdered citizens, and there were rumors of more atrocities to come. Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger was convinced a conspiracy existed to overthrow the government, a sinister cabal that could only be destroyed from within. But admission into the traitorous society of evil carried a grim price: the life of Decius' closest friend - and maybe his own.

The author's masterful writing and impeccable faithfulness to historical fact join together to create a grippingly suspenseful tale of murder and conspiracy in ancient Rome.

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Although written in his usual sardonic style, and with grand Roman colour filled with intrigue and murder, for some reason John Maddox Robert's second book in this excellent series failed to hold my attention in the same way as did his later stories. And towards the end I found my attention wandering. There are still remarkably engaging sections, such as the race to get a sacrificial horse head safely home through crowds determine to stop Decius in his desperate flight, and the reader is offered many little tidbits of what life was like in ancient Rome towards the end of the Republic. The story itself should have been thrilling but...
The narrator, John Lee, was good and had a suitable haughtiness as he voiced the recollections of these times in the person of the, now, much older, Decius Caecilius Metellus looking back on his youthful indiscretions.

So, not a favourite but still worth reading, however.


"I am always serious", he said, seriously.

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This series is excellent - John Maddox Roberts had captured the drama and tragedy of the events that cause the fall of the Roman republic, as witnessed by Decius Metellus, a sort of 1st century BC detective.

An excellent take on the conspiracy of Catilina

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The book is set in 1st Century BC Rome.. What's with the Building? I preferred the old Book Cover, it was more appropriate to the book ie fun.

Moreover, the previous narrator was better at this book.

What's with the new 'book cover'?

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I've started reading the series as I really like the narrator (from the Spellmonger series). Looking at other reviews, he is not to everyones tastes - perhaps he grows on you? Anyway, the story filled another day with a good murder mystery in a world that I am unfamilar with, but which is prompting me to read up separately on the key events and characters of the time. I didn't study Latin, so am not overly concerned about pronunciation. On to the third book ...

Another well narrated fun book

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I was looking forward to this book but the weird naration spoiled it for me. The narator sounded as if he was reading a particularly boring newspaper report. Very strange inflections. Couldn't get past the 2nd chapter

Better buy the hard copy!

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