num_pages: 286
description: Nero's secret police believe they have come on the first hints of a plot against the emperor's life. Once a promising &amp; gifted friend of poets, pupil of the great Seneca, Nero has bloodied himself &amp; grown fat on power. Crass, mediocre men--the military &amp; the secret police--now have his ear. While he &amp; his court give themselves to pleasures increasingly perverse &amp; dissipated, the secret police close in on (or do they foment, or imagine?) the conspiracy of the men of letters.
language: English
title: The Conspiracy
titlecomplete: The Conspiracy
genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 85
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (NY)