Balbinus Pius, the most notorious gangster in Emperor Vespasian's Rome, has been convicted of a capital crime at last. A quirk of Roman law, however, allows citizens condemned to death "time to depart" and find exile outside the empire. Now as every hoodlum in Rome scrambles to take over Balbinus' operations, private eye Marcus Didius Falco has to deal with an unprecedented wave of crime--and the sneaking suspicion that Balbinus' exile may not really be so permanent after all.
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One dark and gloomy dawn Petro and Falco put the evil Balbinus aboard ship, a criminal sent into exile. But an outbreak of robbery and murder suggest a new criminal ring has moved into Balbinus? territory. Petro and Falco are called in to investigate...
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Lindsey Davis is the author of the acclaimed historical novels The Course of Honor and Rebels and Traitors, as well as the internationally bestselling series of novels featuring Marcus Didius Falco. Born and raised in Birmingham, England, she grew up to earn an English degree at Oxford and spent time working for the civil service for thirteen years before she decided to be a writer. More than a dozen books later, her internationally bestselling novels featuring Marcus Didius Falco have earned her the Crime Writer' Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award. She lives in London.
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