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The King's Gambit (SPQR) | 
 enlarge | Author: John Maddox Roberts
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 26527
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0312277059
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312277055
ASIN: 0312277059
Publication Date: August 24, 2001
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Another in the SPQR Series March 10, 2007
J. Chippindale (England)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
John Maddox Roberts is the pseudonym of Mark Ramsay, author of numerous works of science fiction and fantasy, in addition to his successful historical SPQR mystery series. He lives in New Mexico with his wife.
Anyone who is a fan of Lindsey Davis, Steven Saylor or David Wishart will love the SPQR series of books by the author. Once again we have an addition to the ever growing number of amateur detectives patrolling the streets of ancient Rome, solving mysteries and crimes. Not all at the same time, I may add, in fact not even in the same centuries. Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger, a high-born bad boy, is the offering of the author and he is just as interesting, likeable and believable as the leading characters from the author's contemporaries.
The city of Rome is at its lowest ebb for many years. The streets of the city are filled with violence and the vicious gangs are preying on high and low born alike. When a lowly ex-slave is found garrotted and a foreign merchant is disembowelled in the Suburbs district of the city it would normally be of little consequence and quickly forgotten or pushed aside by the powers that be.
But Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger, the commander of the local vigils station has other ideas and is determined to investigate the matter. Coming from high born stock Metellus has some contacts who may be able to help in the matter, but as he digs deeper he uncovers a festering sore of bribes, threats and corruption, right up to the highest levels of Roman government.
Sparkling addition to the genre. February 4, 2002
76 out of 82 found this review helpful
Kings Gambit is the first novel in the SPQR series of books. Set in Republican Rome 70 BC the books hero, Decius Caecilius Metelius is a typical junior civil servant, idealistic & niave who is soon out of his depth when investigating a series of murders, which lead him to meet several of the key power players of the age like Ceasar, Pompey, Clodius and Cicero. The book bravely settles for a realistic end rather which reflects the politics of the time rather than the hero conquers all.
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