- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (6 Jun 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099338815
- ISBN-13: 978-0099338819
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 11.1 x 2.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 425,486 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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I still can't believe I've put the bastard away for good!' Petro muttered. Petro Longus, captain of the Aventine watch, and Falco's oldest friend, has finally nailed one of Rome's top criminals. But under Roman law citizens cannot be imprisoned; instead they are allowed 'time to depart' from the Empire to go into permanent exile. One dark and gloomy dawn, Falco and Petro put the evil Balbinus aboard ship at the port of Ostia, thinking what it is the last they will ever hear of him. But soon the corpses start appearing: one of Petro's men who went with Balbinus is washed ashore dead and the informer who finally nailed the criminal is killed soon afterwards. It is obvious that Balbinus has returned and that once more he is running his criminal organisation. Petro and Falco must descend into the underworld of Vespasian's Rome to get their man.
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I still can't believe I've put the bastard away for good!' Petro muttered. Petronius Longus, captain of the Aventine watch and Falco's oldest friend, has finally nailed one of Rome's top criminals. Under Roman law citizens are not imprisoned but are allowed 'time to depart' into exile outside the Empire. One dark and gloomy dawn Petro and Falco put the evil Balbinus aboard ship.
But soon after, an outbreak of robbery and murder suggest a new criminal ring has moved into Balbinus' territory. Petro and Falco must descend into the underworld of Vespasian's Rome to investigate...
'Non-stop action, excitement and astonishments - a real cracker' The Good Book Guide
'Absolutely smashing' Daily Telegraph
'Davis's writing zings with fun' Daily Mail
But soon after, an outbreak of robbery and murder suggest a new criminal ring has moved into Balbinus' territory. Petro and Falco must descend into the underworld of Vespasian's Rome to investigate...
'Non-stop action, excitement and astonishments - a real cracker' The Good Book Guide
'Absolutely smashing' Daily Telegraph
'Davis's writing zings with fun' Daily Mail
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Miss Davis Gets Better,
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This review is from: Time to Depart (Paperback)
This is the seventh novel in the mystery series featuring Marcus Didius Falco, an informer and sleuth in Rome at the time of Vespasian. A series of books that have become hugely popular, so much so that the author is now at the forefront of historical mystery writers. It was probably a stroke of genius on her part to have novels that are extremely well researched and contain all the elements that would be and should be found in the Roman world of circa AD70, but to have a lead character who has the vocabulary of a present day New York cop. In this the seventh novel Falco and Helena Justina almost seem like long lost relations to the reader.
Time to Depart the title of this latest offering from Lindsey Davis is quite a poignant phrase. If a Roman citizen committed a crime they were not confined to prison but in the true sense of the words they were given time to depart from the Roman Empire and very few were ever allowed to return. Exile was considered to be the worst punishment possible for a Roman. Falco is on the quay at Ostia. "It is Time to Depart" for one of Rome's most famous criminals and Falco and his friend, Petronius are there to see that it actually happens. In this book Lindsey Davis has allowed Falco to remain within the confines of his beloved Rome. Working with his oldest friend Petronius Longinus, Captain of the Aventine Watch. There has been an outbreak of robberies and murder in the city and Falco and Petro pool their resources to try to get to the bottom of them. At the same time Falco is looking for a new place to live for himself and Helena. He believes that in a few months time their old apartment will not be big enough for them
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Falco No 7: in which Helena is expecting, and Falco is expecting trouble!,
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This review is from: Time to Depart (Paperback)
This is the seventh, and one of the most entertaining, in a series of excellent detective stories set in Vespasian's Roman Empire and featuring the informer Marcus Didius Falco. Informers in ancient Rome were something between a private detective and a government spy.
At the start of the book, in Autumn of 72 AD, Falco and his girlfriend Helena Justina have just arrived back in Rome after the mission to the middle east described in "Last Act in Palmyra" to find that Falco's friend Petro has finally managed to obtain the evidence required to get a prominent local crimelord sentenced to exile. They put the miscreant, the un-aptly named Balbinus Pius, on a boat at the Roman port of Ostia and hope to never see him again. Also at the start of the book, Falco finds that Helena Justina is pregnant again, having miscarried their child in an earlier book. Falco wants to marry her, but to obtain the status to marry a senator's daughter he needs to obtain promotion from plebian rank (the lowest grade of freeborn Roman) to at least the equestrian (middle class) order, a promotion which Domitian Caesar has already refused. But before he can get too concerned about this, people who were invovled in sending Balbinus into exile start turning up dead in suspiscious circumstances. Has he really gone - and can Falco and Petro find out who is killing the witnesses before he works round to them? I initially tried this series because I had enjoyed the "Cadfael" mediaeval detective stories by Ellis Peters. Where Cadfael is excellent, Falco is brilliant. Ellis Peters herself (or to use her real name, Edith Pargeter) said of the early books of the series, 'Lindsey Davis continues her exploration of Vespasian's Rome and Marcus Didius Falco's Italy with the same wit and gusto that made "The Silver Pigs" such a dazzling debut and her rueful, self-deprecating hero so irresistibly likeable.' Funny, exciting, and based on a painstaking effort to re-create the world of the early Roman empire between 70 and 76 AD. If you have met and enjoyed the Cadfael series, this is even better. It isn't absolutely essential to read these stories in sequence, as the mysteries Falco is trying to solve are all self-contained stories and each book can stand on its own. Having said that, there is some ongoing development of characters and relationships and I think reading them in the right order does improve the experience. The full Falco series, in chronological order, consists at the moment of: The Silver Pigs Shadows in Bronze Venus in Copper The Iron Hand of Mars Poseidon's Gold Last Act in Palmyra Time to Depart A Dying Light in Corduba Three Hands in the Fountain Two for the Lions One Virgin Too Many Ode to a Banker A Body in the Bath house The Jupiter Myth The Accusers Scandal taks a Holiday See Delphi and Die Saturnalia Alexandria Nemesis I have read and can warmly recommend all of these. In addition, Lyndsey Davis has written another novel in which one of the real historical characters who has a minor part in "Time to Depart" moves to centre stage. "The Course of Honour" tells the tale of the love story between Vespasian and his mistress Caenis. Davis takes a person who is known to us only from two or three lines in Suetonius's "The Twelve Caesars" and from those lines creates a charming pen portrait of a living and vital woman and the love of her life.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An enthralling read, with lots of historical detail,
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This review is from: Time to Depart (Paperback)
This is the first Lindsey Davis book which I read. I picked it up at the airport for a light read on a long-haul flight. It is an enthralling read, as are all her books; a real page turner. With her usual mixture of suspense, comedy (sometimes slapstick) and great historical detail, she really brings ancient Rome to life.Still my favourite, maybe because it was the first which I read, maybe because it's the only one so far which read to be set in the city of Rome (all others being set in the provinces). Highly recommended.
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