Rome does not sit quietly under its ruins. Walk from the Forum to the Vatican and you cross two thousand years of power changing hands but rarely changing shape a temple becomes a church, an emperor’s court becomes a papal one, and the old instinct to rule from the centre of the world never really leaves the city.
Researching the James Carter Thrillers meant spending long mornings in the Forum before the crowds arrived, and longer evenings in archives that still smell of the nineteenth century. What stayed with me most was not the monuments but the layering: how much of the ancient city survives, quite literally, under the modern one, waiting to be reinterpreted by whoever digs next.
This is the terrain EGREGORI opens in a Rome where the past has never fully finished happening.