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The Crossroads Brotherhood
The Crossroads Brotherhood: A Crossroads Brotherhood Novella from the bestselling author of the VESPASIAN series | Robert Fabbri
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Rome, AD 25: Marcus Salvius Magnus, Patron of the Crossroads Brotherhood, has a problem. In fact, he has two. One of the brothels under his protection has been raided by a rival Brotherhood, and valuable merchandise has been stolen. He can't lose face and let the attack go unpunished, but how can he retaliate without igniting a gang war? At the other end of the social spectrum, Lady Antonia - the emperor's sister-in-law - has let Senator Gaius Vespasius Pollo know that she has a score that only blood will settle, and Magnus owes the Senator a favour. Now, a simple assassination wouldn't be a problem for a man like Magnus, but the instruction is that this death has to be a little more... inventive... than the usual knife-in-the-back-in-a-dark-alley. Perhaps the Patronus of the Crossroads Brotherhood can kill two birds with one stone? A VESPASIAN NOVELLA
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Marcus Salvius Magnus solves the rivalry between a brothel owner under his protection and a rival protected by a gang from a neighbouring area in Rome in such a way as to also do a favour for Antonia, sister-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius.

This story of mafia style gangs in the lower reaches of Roman society paints a rather harsher picture than I'm used to, but the story grabbed my attention and was quite impossible to put down.