by Ben Pastor · Seix Barral · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432231674
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«Conspiratio: El caso del ladrón de agua» is the historical novel by Ben Pastor, published by Seix Barral in hardback (448 pages, in Spanish).
In AD 304, the soldier and historian Aelius Spartianus is commissioned to write a biography of Hadrian, who died almost 175 years earlier. His investigation into the death of Antinous, drowned under strange circumstances, leads him into a conspiracy threatening the Roman Empire, involving a hidden letter and a series of murders.
First instalment of the Aelius Spartianus series. Originally in English as 'The Water Thief', translated by José Antonio Soriano. International Historical Novel Prize City of Zaragoza 2008.
For readers of historical and mystery fiction set in ancient Rome, with plots of intrigue and imperial conspiracies.
Ben Pastor, pseudonym of Maria Verbena Volpi, is an author born in Rome. She is known for her historical novels taking place in ancient Rome and in post World War II Germany. She has Italian and US citizenship.
