About the book: 2008 / Seventies AD. Rome. City of cities. The capital of a great empire. Very, very free morals reign here. Here state secrets are discussed in the bedrooms of courtesans and actors. “Private informant” Marcus Didius Falco always has a lot of work - after all, in Rome there are plenty of unfaithful wives, frivolous lovers, thieving managers, and dishonest merchants. However, this work brings in little money. But finally, luck smiled on Falco: his trip around the Bay of Naples was paid for by Emperor Vespasian himself. But in reality, the purpose of the “pleasure trip” is to uncover a conspiracy directed against the emperor himself. A conspiracy that seems to involve the most noble and wealthy Romans…