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Watchmen of Rome (Carbo of Rome)
by Alex Gough
Book 1 in the Carbo of Rome series.
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Rome, AD 27. Carbo has returned after twenty-five years in the legions, carrying memories of the Teutoburg disaster and hoping to live quietly in the Subura. When he learns that Rufa, a woman he once loved, has been enslaved, his attempt to help her brings him into conflict with traffickers, local criminals and a secretive cult.
Carbo joins the district watch and applies a veteran’s discipline to dangers that the formal machinery of imperial government rarely reaches. The novel uses the reign of Tiberius, the vigiles and Rome’s slave economy to create a street-level mystery about belonging, guilt and the limits of civilian justice.
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