'Masterful' SUNDAY TIMES_________________Ancient Rome. 70 B.C. The height of the Republic.A city rippling with power - and with no shortage of men who'd do anything to wield it... When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the mos...