The King Of Sacrifices

✍ Scribed by Roberts, John Maddox

• Book ID: 109239912
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 17 KB
• Series: SPQR 13.30
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Overview: John Maddox Roberts is an author who has written many science fiction and fantasy novels, including his successful historical fiction, such as the SPQR series and Hannibal's Children. In 1989, Roberts published his first historical mystery, The King's Gambit, set in ancient Rome. The book was nominated for the Edgar Award as best mystery of year. The book was first in Maddox's SPQR series of mysteries. Roberts also write a series of contemporary detective novels about a private eye named Gabe Treloar. The first book, A Typical American Town, is set in a fictionalized version of that Ohio town where he was born. The second, The Ghosts of Saigon, used his experiences in Vietnam. The third, Desperate Highways, is a road novel.