The bull slayer [WorldCat Entities]

"As Pliny, newly appointed governor of the Bithynia region of Ancient Rome, investigates the death of a high Roman official found murdered on a desolate hillside, his wife makes the ultimate betrayal."@en
"THE ROMAN EMPIRE, 109 AD. The frontier province of Bithynia is a cesspit of sedition, rotten with corruption and seething with hatred of Rome. When a rich Roman official is found dead on a desolate hillside; two riderless horses tethered in a nearby wood, it is assumed he was killed as a protest against Emperor Trajan's unlimited power. But Pliny the Younger, newly appointed Governor of Bithynia, is not so sure. Who was the other rider? What were the two of them doing in the middle of nowhere? And what links this murder to a secret cult of the Persian sun god, Mithra."@en
"A turbulent frontier province, rotten with corruption and seething with hatred of Rome?a barbarian god whose devotees may include a murderer ?a clever and unscrupulous faith healer who knows everyone?s secrets?a boy who struggles toward manhood though stricken with the Sacred Disease: these are the elements in a mystery that Pliny, newly appointed governor of Bithynia, confronts when a high Roman official is found murdered on a desolate hillside, miles from the capital. But as Pliny pursues one baffling lead after another, he is being betrayed where he least expects it: his beautiful wife, neglected and lonely in an alien city, falls desperately in love with a handsome young provincial?an affair which threatens to bring not only pain but ruin to Pliny?s career. All these threads come together in a surprising and tragic finale."@en
"A turbulent frontier province, rotten with corruption and seething with hatred of Rome, a barbarian god whose devotees may include a murderer, a clever and unscrupulous faith healer who knows everyone's secrets, a boy who struggles toward manhood though stricken with the Sacred Disease: these are the elements in a mystery that Pliny, newly appointed governor of Bithynia, confronts when a high Roman official is found murdered on a desolate hillside, miles from the capital. But as Pliny pursues one baffling lead after another, he is being betrayed where he least expects it: his beautiful wife, neglected and lonely in an alien city, falls desperately in love with a handsome young provincial, an affair which threatens to bring not only pain but ruin to Pliny's career. All these threads come together in a surprising and tragic finale."
"De nieuw benoemde goeverneur van een provincie in het Romeinse Rijk krijgt te maken met financiële knoeierijen en mysterieuze moorden waarbij ingewijden van de Mitrasgodsdienst betrokken lijken."