John Maddox Roberts John Maddox Roberts is an American author of science fiction and fantasy novels, including historical fiction , such as the SPQR series and Hannibal's Children .Personal life John Maddox Roberts was born in Ohio and was raised in Texas , California, New Mexico . He has lived in various places in the United States as well as in Scotland, England and Mexico. He was kicked out of college in 1967 and joined the Army. He was in the US Army 1967–70, and did a tour in Vietnam . After he returned, he became a Green Beret . He lives with his wife in Estancia, New Mexico .Career Upon his return to civilian life, Roberts decided to be a writer and sold his first book to Doubleday in 1975; his book was published in 1977 as The Strayed Sheep of Charum . His earlier books were in the science fiction, fantasy and historical genres. In 1989, Roberts published his first historical mystery , The King's Gambit , set in ancient Rome. The book was nominated for the Edgar Award as best mystery of the year. The book was first in Maddox's SPQR series of mysteries. Roberts also wrote a series of contemporary detective novels about a private eye named Gabe Treloar. The first book, A Typical American Town , is set in a fictionalized version of that Ohio town where he was born. The second, The Ghosts of Saigon , used his experiences in Vietnam. The third, Desperate Highways , is a road novel. When asked by TSR to do a Dragonlance mystery, he wrote Murder in Tarsis . Roberts wrote an unpublished science fiction book called The Line , a police procedural set in a near-future Los Angeles where the biggest racket is illegal traffic in fetal pineal glands.Cingulum series The Cingulum Cloak of Illusion The Sword, The Jewel, and The Mirror Island Worlds series Act of God The Island Worlds Between The Stars Delta Pavonis Conan series Conan the Valorous Conan the Champion Conan the Marauder Conan the Bold Conan the Rogue Conan and the Manhunters Conan and the Treasure of Python Conan and the Amazon Dragonlance series Murder in Tarsis Falcon Series An action series telling the story of a Crusader returning to Europe to seek vengeance on his father's killers The Falcon StrikesThe Black Pope The Bloody Cross The King's Treasure Gabe Treloar series A Typical American Town Ghosts of Saigon Desperate Highways Space Angel Spacer: Window of the Mind Mystery series set in Ancient Rome SPQR The Catiline Conspiracy The Sacrilege The Temple of the Muses Saturnalia Nobody Loves A Centurion The Tribune's Curse The River God's Vengeance The Princess and the Pirates A Point of Law Under Vesuvius Oracle of the Dead The Year of Confusion Stormlands series The Islander The Black Shields The Poisoned Lands The Steel Kings Queens of Land and Sea Hannibal series Hannibal's Children The Seven HillsIndividual novels The Strayed Sheep of Charun , expanded into Cestus Dei King of the Wood The Enigma Variations Legacy of Prometheus Total Recall 2070: Machine Dreams Short stories "Mightier Than the Sword", in the historical mystery anthology The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits , edited by Mike Ashley "The King of Sacrifices", , in the historical mystery anthology The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives , edited by Mike Ashley "The Statuette of Rhodes", in the historical mystery anthology ', edited by Mike Ashley "The Mountain Wolves" in the anthology ', edited by Mike Ashley "The Etruscan House" , in the historical mystery anthology Crime Through Time II , edited by Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharon Newman "An Academic Question", in the historical mystery anthology Past Poisons: An Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime , edited by Maxim Jakubowski "Venus in Pearls", in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine , July-August 2001 "The Will", in the historical mystery anthology The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits , edited by Mike Ashley "Beware the Snake", in the urban fantasy anthology Down These Strange Streets , edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
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