
Pages
384
Rating
4.00
Year
2005
It’s A.D. 76 during the reign of Vespasian, and Marcus Didius Falco, a Roman “informer,” has achieved much in his life. He’s joined the equestrian rank, allowing him to marry Helena Justina, the Senator’s beloved daughter. But now he’s been hired to undertake a dangerous mission: to pry his brother-in-law, Aulus—a scholar on his way to study in Athens—away from a murder investigation involving two dead women at the ancient site of the Olympic Games. Traveling to Greece under the guise of tourists, Falco and Helena visit the country’s classical sites to investigate the suspicious goings-on and the shady dealings of Seven Sights, a fly-by-night travel agency. What begins as a risky expedition becomes sinister when Aulus, too, goes missing in what becomes Falco’s most complex and high-stakes case yet.