Medicus by Ruth Downie Paperback Book

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Author: Ruth Downie

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Published: Mar 2007

Genre: Fiction - Historical - General

Retail Price: $79.99

Discs: 10

Synopsis

A doctor for the Roman Empire in occupied Britain, Gaius Petrius Ruso faces a wide array of problems in the backwater frontier: foul living conditions, a lousy boss, financial problems, a divorce, an ungrateful slave-girl, and the mystery of the murdered prostitutes at the bordello. As he becomes an unwilling detective, his own life becomes endangered. Ruth Downie marvelously portrays the chaotic existence at the fringes of the Roman Empire, and Gaius is a compelling protagonist--a civilized man in an uncivilized world.

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