Time to Depart
A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery

Balbinus Pius, the most notorious gangster in Emperor Vespasians 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 crimeand the sneaking suspicion that Balbinus exile may not really be so permanent after all.