SPQR VI - first US edition

by John Maddox Roberts

Sixth book in the SPQR series. When his worst enemy, who could do him great harm, wins a tribuneship, Decius decides it's time to leave Rome. In addition, the family patriarchs, who are grooming him for public office, want him to have more military service. So Decius and his slave, Hermes, journey deep into Gaul, where Caius Julius Caesar is at war with the Helvetii. It soon develops, however, that Decius's arrival was fortuitous. When Vinius, the army's cruelest centurion (so-called because he commands a hundred soldiers), is found murdered

Second of the series in hardback. Book has black boards and is stamped in gold on the spine; read once with care, hence near fine condition.

Dust wrapper is in fine condition, prince intact at $23.95.