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The Bull Slayer: A Plinius Secundus Mystery
The Bull Slayer A Plinius Secundus Mystery Author:Bruce Macbain A turbulent frontier province, rotten with corruption and seething with hatred of Rome - a barbarian god whose devotees may include a murderer - a clever and unscrupulous faith healer who knows everyone's secrets - a boy who struggles toward manhood though stricken with the Sacred Disease: these are the elements in a mystery that Pliny, newly ap... more »pointed governor of Bithynia, confronts when a high Roman official is found murdered on a desolate hillside, miles from the capital. But as Pliny pursues one baffling lead after another, he is being betrayed where he least expects it: his beautiful wife, neglected and lonely in an alien city, falls desperately in love with a handsome young provincial - an affair which threatens to bring not only pain but ruin to Pliny's career. All these threads come together in a surprising and tragic finale.« less