Donning his toga, he crosses town to meet the matron who reveals that her son may not have been as loyal to Pompey as one may think. On his way back, Gordianus encounters traffic despite the late hour thanks to Caesar’s impending arrival since crossing the Rubicon.Īfter a sleepless night, Gordianus awakes to a summon by Numerius’ mother, Maecia. Soon after, Gordianus pays Cicero, the person Numerius went to see prior to meeting his untimely death at Gordianus’, a visit. Upon seeing his dead kinsman, Pompey orders Gordianus to solve the murder and takes Davus as collateral. Soon after, Pompey himself comes to visit. With Diana’s help, the two discover a coded message with a dossier on Gordianus. Before reporting to the Great One, the two inspect the body only to come upon a secret compartment hidden in the corpse’s shoe. Gordianus and his son-in-law, Davus, find Pompey’s cousin, Numerius Pompeius, dead in the garden. The main character is the Roman sleuth Gordianus the Finder. It is the seventh book in his Roma Sub Rosa series of mystery stories set in the final decades of the Roman Republic. Rubicon is a historical novel by American author Steven Saylor, first published by St.
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