The Bull Slayer

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CORRUPTION, BETRAYAL, MURDER: games the Romans play best. A turbulent frontier province, rotten with corruption and seething with hatred of Rome a barbarian god whose devotees may include a murderer a clever and unscrupulous faith healer who knows everyone's secrets a boy who struggles toward manhood though stricken with the Sacred Disease: these are the elements in a mystery that Pliny, newly appointed governor of Bithynia, confronts when a high Roman official is found murdered on a desolate hillside, miles from the capital.

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Roman Games is brilliant. A brutal vision of Rome, rigid with hierarchy and fear. -- Robert Fabbri
Macbain leads the reader down the mean and dirty streets of Rome. Sure to appeal to fans of Steven Saylor * Library Journal *
Inspired... A highly atmospheric and absorbing murder mystery that builds to an earthshaking climax. -- Steven Saylor

Author Bio

Bruce Macbain holds a BA in Classics from the University of Chicago and a PhD. in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught Greek and Roman history at Vanderbilt and Boston University.