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Calidus

Tato série vás vtáhne do intrik starověkého Říma, kde se na první pohled obyčejné události skrývají temná tajemství a vražedná spiknutí. Sledujte osudy bystrého bývalého otroka, který se vrhá do nebezpečného vyšetřování úmrtí svého pána. Odhaluje svět plný mocných senátorů, nebezpečných vojáků a samotného císaře Nera. Je to napínavé dobrodružství, kde spravedlnost a osobní pomsta jdou ruku v ruce s odhalením nejtemnějších koutů římské společnosti.

The Year of the Snake

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    Senator Gaius Lucius Nerva is taken ill at a dinner party and dies a few days later. His heartbroken wife, Flavia, is told it was a natural death. Calidus, Nerva?s recently freed slave, suspects otherwise. As he embarks upon the funeral ceremonies, Calidus becomes more and more convinced that his master was murdered and begins an investigation, seeking out everyone who had attended the dinner party. His enquiries lead him to rub shoulders with the ?great and good? of Rome; senators, soldiers, even the ruthless and mercurial Emperor Nero. And his former lover, Julia Eusabia, who seems intent on rekindling their romance and luring him away from his wife and daughter. Calidus? quest is by no means easy or safe as he encounters the darkest and most dangerous people in Rome. But he knows he must keep searching for the person responsible, to bring justice to the master he had loved

    The Year of the Snake