Аннотация
Steven Saylor
Arms of Nemesis
CONTENTSPart One CORPSES, LIVING AND DEAD
Part Two THE JAWS OF HADES
Part Three DEATH IN A CUP
Part Four FUNERAL GAMES
Epilogue Author's Note
The BAYS of NAPLES
At the Time of the Spartacan Slave Revolt, 72 B.C.
Part One
Corpses, Living and Dead
For all his fine qualities – his honesty and devotion, his cleverness, his uncanny agility – Eco was not well suited for answering the door. Eco was mute.
But he was not and has never been deaf. He has, in fact, the sharpest ears of anyone I've ever known. He is also a light sleeper, a habit held over from the wretched, watchful days of his childhood, before his mother abandoned him and I took him in from the street and finally adopted him. Not surprisingly, it was Eco who heard the knock at the door in the second hour after nightfall, when everyone in the household had gone to bed. It was Eco who greeted my nocturnal visitor, but was unable...
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