

The Throne of Caesar
Author: Steven Saylor
Series: Roma Sub Rosa #16
Narrator: John Curless
Unabridged: 14 hr 37 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 02/20/2018
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Author: Steven Saylor
Series: Roma Sub Rosa #16
Narrator: John Curless
Unabridged: 14 hr 37 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 02/20/2018
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Steven Saylor is the author of the long running Roma Sub Rosa series featuring Gordianus the Finder, as well as the New York Times bestselling novel, Roma and its follow-up, Empire. He has appeared as an on-air expert on Roman history and life on The History Channel. Saylor was born in Texas and graduated with high honors from The University of Texas at Austin, where he studied history and classics. He divides his time between Berkeley, California, and Austin, Texas.
Finally we have the long-awaited Gordianus and the Ides of March novel and it is even better than I expected; the author does a few clever things (some prepared in earlier volumes) to allow the following: Gordianus must be involved and witness the assassination but is not able/willing to prevent it......more
I have really enjoyed reading the Roma Sub Rosa series by Saylor. The time had to come when the death of Caesar would be part of the story, and this was it. If the series sprouts further life, I would guess it could be the continuation of crime investigation by family members of Gordianus the Finder......more
And so ends the Roma Sub Rosa series.... and it ends with Rome's most infamous murder. Taking place over just a few days, this superb novel investigates Caesar's last days as witnessed by Gordianus the Finder. It also paints a vivid and varied portrait of life, religion, the arts and politics in Rom......more
Gordianus the Finder is growing old. He does not particularly welcome a new commission from Cicero and is not especially inspired when he receives a similar commission from the dictator Julius Caesar: both men want him to investigate whether there exists a conspiracy against Caesar’s life - and it i......more
In THE THRONE OF CAESAR, Gordianus the Finder faces one of the most difficult challenges in his career: to learn whether there’a a plot to kill Julius Caesar so it can be nipped in the bud. Author Steven Saylor faces a task that’s equally daunting: to make readers care about a murder mystery in whic......more