num_pages: 172
description: Former gladiator Saevius is certain Fortunes smiling on him when a Pompeiian politician buys him to be his bodyguard. That is until his new master Laurea Calvus orders Saevius to discover the gladiator with whom his wife is having a sordid affair. In order to do that Saevius must return to the arena training alongside the very men on whom hes spying. Worse hes now under the command of Drusus a notoriously crueland yet strangely intriguinglanista.But Saeviuss ruse is the least of his worries. Theres more to the affair than a wife humiliating her prominent husband and now Saevius is part of a dangerous game between dangerous men. He isnt the only gladiator out to expose the Lady Verinas transgressions and her husband wants more than just the guilty mans name.When Saevius learns the truth about the affair hes left with no choice but to betray a master: one hes come to fear one hes come to respect and either of whom could have him killed without repercussion.For the first time in his life the most dangerous place for this gladiator isnt the arena.This novel has been previously published under the pseudonym L.A. Witt and has been lightly revised.
language: English
title: The Left Hand of Calvus
publisher: None