Discover one of the world's favourite detectives as his first case leads him into conspiracy murder & adventure In 1989 THE SILVER PIGS introduced the world to laid-back first-century detective Marcus Didius Falco his partner Helena Justina his law & order pal Petronius & his indomitable Mother
- who became some of the most celebrated characters in historical fiction Now reissued in a special new edition to celebrate publication of Falco's twentieth investigation THE SILVER PIGS sees Falco cynically eyeing up the new Roman emperor Vespasian Our hero a private informer rescues a young girl in trouble & is catapulted into a dangerous game involving stolen imperial ingots a dark political plot & most hazardous of all a senator's daughter connected to the traitors Falco has sworn to expose