By Steven Saylor
As Caesar marches on Rome and panic erupts within the urban, Gordianus the Finder discovers, in his own residence, the physique of Pompey's favourite cousin. ahead of fleeing the town, Pompey exacts a poor cut price from the finder of secrets-to unearth the killer, or sacrifice his personal son-in-law to carrier in Pompey's legions, and sure demise. Amid the city's sordid underbelly, Gordianus learns that the murdered guy was once a deadly secret agent. Now, as he follows a path of intrigue, betrayal, and ferocious battles on land and sea, the Finder is stuck among the chaos of struggle and the negative fact he needs to ultimately reveal.
Rubicon, set in early days of the Roman Civil warfare, is a pivotal novel in Saylor's bestselling and significantly acclaimed sequence of novels set in overdue Republican Rome.
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