Age of Treason

In need of money to pay both his landlord and an angry bookmaker, Falco -- a private detective living in Rome, circa 69 A.D. -- is asked to find the missing brother of Helena, the daughter of a prominent senator and wife to Pertinax, the head of the emperor's guards. Having been given title to a sensitive gladiator named Justus in exchange for an overdue bill, Falco finds the young boy's body in the catacombs as it is about to be buried. After returning to his gladiator's school where Justus falls for the female gladiator Druida, Falco suspects a failed attempt on his own life is connected with the inquiry into Cato's death...