Royal Gambit (SPQR I)

An exciting detective story from ancient Rome, the first volume of the SPQR series in a pleasant interpretation by Jiří Miroslav Valůšek Roman society is slowly recovering from Sulla's reign of terror and is looking for ways to re-establish the Roman Republic. However, the streets of the Eternal City are ruled by dangerous gangs who rob plebeians and patricians alike. The strangulation of an insignificant freed slave and the murder of a foreign merchant in the dangerous quarter of Subura therefore seemed to the Roman dignitaries to be a trifling event. However, Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger, the noble commander of the local vigilantes, decides to solve the murders against all advice. It soon reveals a world of corruption at the highest levels of government. He represents a threat that could destroy not only Decius himself, but also the government he serves.