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Название книги: Poseidon s Gold
Автор(ы): Lindsey Davis
Жанр: Криминальный детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Poseidon-s-Gold-161952.html
ROME; CAPUA; ROME
March-April, AD72
I
A dark and stormy night on the Via Aurelia: the omens were bad for our home-coming even before we entered Rome.By that time we had covered a thousand miles, making our journey from Germany in February and March. The five or six hours on the last stint from Veii were the worst. Long after other travellers had tucked themselves up in wayside inns, we found ourselves alone on the road. Electing to press on and reach the city tonight had been a ridiculous option. Everyone in my party knew it, and everyone knew who was responsible: me, Marcus Didius Falco, the man in charge. The rest were probably expressing their views fractiously, but I couldn't hear. They were in the carriage, thoroughly damp and uncomfortable, but able to see that there were colder and wetter alternatives: I was on horseback, completely exposed to the driving wind and rain.Without warning, the first dwellings appeared-the tall, crowded apartments that would line our way through the unsavoury sl
Название книги: Poseidon s Gold
Автор(ы): Lindsey Davis
Жанр: Криминальный детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Poseidon-s-Gold-161952.html
ROME; CAPUA; ROME
March-April, AD72
I
A dark and stormy night on the Via Aurelia: the omens were bad for our home-coming even before we entered Rome.By that time we had covered a thousand miles, making our journey from Germany in February and March. The five or six hours on the last stint from Veii were the worst. Long after other travellers had tucked themselves up in wayside inns, we found ourselves alone on the road. Electing to press on and reach the city tonight had been a ridiculous option. Everyone in my party knew it, and everyone knew who was responsible: me, Marcus Didius Falco, the man in charge. The rest were probably expressing their views fractiously, but I couldn't hear. They were in the carriage, thoroughly damp and uncomfortable, but able to see that there were colder and wetter alternatives: I was on horseback, completely exposed to the driving wind and rain.Without warning, the first dwellings appeared-the tall, crowded apartments that would line our way through the unsavoury sl
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