R. S. Gompertz

Aqueduct to Nowhere: the Sequel to "No Roads Lead to Rome" R. S. Gompertz

  There's no time like the past to laugh at the present!
   A. D. 123. on the ragged edge of the Roman Empire.
   Saturnalia--the winter festival where slaves become masters and masters, slaves -- is in full, raucous swing. Gaius Severus, a young misfit searching for love, identity and breakfast is working a dull job as a security guard when the worst governor in the Roman Empire is overthrown and a ship full of female pirates takes over the town.
   While Severus stumbles through dark rites of passage and near-fatal coming of age adventures, his feisty girlfriend finds her true calling as a seer and his dissident brother transforms a quest for a holy relic into a comic attempt to overthrow the emperor.
   The gods forsaken Spanish capital of Tarraco is turned upside down by a cast of corrupt officials, disgruntled ex-gladiators, and rogue praetorians.
   History repeats, again as the decline and fall of damn near everything continues in this standalone sequel to "No Roads Lead to Rome."