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Blood & Honour
First published 2018
In 27 BCE civil war has ended and Augustus is the first man of Rome, but Marcus Agrippa hears that the senator Lucius Scaurus is preparing a coup. He recruits the poet Rufus Varro and Varro’s bodyguard Manius to investigate. Scaurus’s company of actors and school of gladiators provide loyal followers who can move through the city without appearing to form a private army.
Varro is an unwilling intelligence agent rather than a professional detective, and his literary connections expose him to conversations closed to soldiers. Manius understands the violence behind the conspiracy but cannot protect his employer from every political trap. The first Spies of Rome novel presents the new Augustan order as fragile, dependent upon secret surveillance even while publicly claiming that peace and lawful government have returned.
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