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Davis, Lindsey
SILVER PIGS
New York : Ballantine Books, 1991.
IL YA .
ISBN 0345369076
Intrigue, spies and traitors are nothing new. Marcus Didius Falco is a private eye/escort service. in the year 70 AD. One job he takes on is the investigation of who is snitching ingots from the silver mine the Romans are running in Britain. There are cheats and double cheats. And Marcus is the James Bond of Roman times. Funny lines, glamorous women, and dangerous assignments combine to make "Silver Pigs" good reading.
SUBJECTS:     Falco, Marcus Didius (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
              Rome -- History -- Vespasian, 69-79 -- Fiction.
              Great Britain -- History -- To 449 -- Fiction.
             Private investigators -- Rome -- Fiction.
             Mystery and detective stories

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