- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (6 Jun 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099831708
- ISBN-13: 978-0099831709
- Product Dimensions: 17.9 x 10.9 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 357,899 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The much loved, bestselling Falco series is repackaged in stunning new jacket design
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In the heyday of the Roman Empire a small accounting error has left Marcus Didius Falco sharing a cell with a large rat. But the Empire's most hard-done-by investigator is eventually bailed out and promptly accepts a commission to help a family of freed slaves fend off a professional bribe.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Excellent plotting and great (but gradual) character development. Stick with the series at least this far to get the benefits.
I liked the first Falco book but thought the second flagged a bit at the beginning. However the end of the second really picks up and leads you straight into the third which was the best for me so far.
I really like Falco he is a 'woman's' idea of an attractive hero and he has strong sense of morality which gets him into lots of trouble.
If I were suddenly to find myself in the scary times of ancient Rome I would look him out immediately.
It is hard to say too much without spoiling any of the excellent plotting that runs through the books so far. Be sure to read them in order though as they really do follow each other on. In a way you cannot really judge them alone as the characters really develop and I think it is nice to see that unfold. Perhaps you should view them as one big book!
I liked the first Falco book but thought the second flagged a bit at the beginning. However the end of the second really picks up and leads you straight into the third which was the best for me so far.
I really like Falco he is a 'woman's' idea of an attractive hero and he has strong sense of morality which gets him into lots of trouble.
If I were suddenly to find myself in the scary times of ancient Rome I would look him out immediately.
It is hard to say too much without spoiling any of the excellent plotting that runs through the books so far. Be sure to read them in order though as they really do follow each other on. In a way you cannot really judge them alone as the characters really develop and I think it is nice to see that unfold. Perhaps you should view them as one big book!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
At the start of this third book in the series, informer Marcus Didius Falco is not the happiest man in Vespasian's Rome. He is sharing a cell in Lautumiae prison with a large rat, after his enemy and rival Anacrites (Vespasian's chief spy) caught him out in a "minor accounting error."
Falco's girlfriend Helena Justina, a senator's daughter, has miscarried their child. He wants to marry her, but to do so he needs to amass the large sum of 400,000 sesterces to qualify for "Equestrian" (e.g. middle class) rank. Looking for business he soon finds himself surrounded by trouble which includes a huge fish, rent racketeers, a fortune-hunting redhead, and a female contortionist who is an expert with snakes ...
Continues a series of excellent detective stories set in the first century Roman Empire and featuring the informer Marcus Didius Falco. Informers in ancient Rome were something between a private detective and a government spy.
I tried this series because I had enjoyed Ellis Peter's "Brother Cadfael" detective stories. Where Cadfael is excellent, Falco is brilliant. Ellis Peters herself (or to use her real name, the late 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 71 AD.
If you have met and enjoyed either the Cadfael series, this is to the early Roman Empire what that series was to twelfth-century England but 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 can stand on its own. But 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.
Falco's girlfriend Helena Justina, a senator's daughter, has miscarried their child. He wants to marry her, but to do so he needs to amass the large sum of 400,000 sesterces to qualify for "Equestrian" (e.g. middle class) rank. Looking for business he soon finds himself surrounded by trouble which includes a huge fish, rent racketeers, a fortune-hunting redhead, and a female contortionist who is an expert with snakes ...
Continues a series of excellent detective stories set in the first century Roman Empire and featuring the informer Marcus Didius Falco. Informers in ancient Rome were something between a private detective and a government spy.
I tried this series because I had enjoyed Ellis Peter's "Brother Cadfael" detective stories. Where Cadfael is excellent, Falco is brilliant. Ellis Peters herself (or to use her real name, the late 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 71 AD.
If you have met and enjoyed either the Cadfael series, this is to the early Roman Empire what that series was to twelfth-century England but 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 can stand on its own. But 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.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
'Venus in Copper.' Another enjoyable adaptation of a Lindsey Davis Falco adventure. I hope that the BBC carries on with this series, but only if Anton Lesser plays Falco, because I really can't imagine anyone else in this part. Anna Maddeley is growing on me, although she still sounds too young, and her voice somehow doesn't yet 'fit' with Lesser's. My favourite female voice in this recording has to belong to Tracy Wiles as Severina. Falco's red-haired temptress as a seductive Scot - obvious, maybe, but brilliantly done. Wiles and Lesser also manage to make me believe that Severina and Falco could end up in bed together. More, please, BBC!
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