'When you read this, Corvinus, both I and my wife Ennia will be dead, on the emperor's orders. What excuse he'll offer publicly or in private I don't know, but whatever it is it will be the product of misinformation and calumny.'When Marcus Corvinus is given a letter from Sertorius Macro, the Emperor Gaius's erstwhile adviser forced into suicide for plotting against him, asking him to clear the dead man's name, he isn't keen on the job at all: rifling...