Shadows in Bronze: A Marcus Didius Falco Novel - Hardcover

Davis, Lindsey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517576120 ISBN 13: 9780517576120

Publisher: Crown, 1991

Synopsis

Rome. AD 71. Marcus Didius Falco, now Imperial Agent to Emperor Vespasian, is keeping busy tidying up corpses, kicking over the traces of a failed coup, making a bit on the side in stolen lead ingots. But a new plot to usurp the purple robes of power puts Falco on the back of a mule with a one-way ticket down the Appian Way - bumping into trouble, treason and Helena Justina, a senator's daughter he's trying hard to forget.

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From the Back Cover:

Friends, Romans, countrymen...welcome back to the world of ancient Rome in Lindsey Davis's thoroughly enjoyable, award-winning series.
 
DEATH TO THE EMPEROR!
 
It's the first century A.D. and Marcus Didius Falco, Ancient Rome's favorite son and sometime palace spy, has just been dealt a lousy blow from the gods: The beautiful, high-born Helena Justina has left him in the dust. So when the Emperor Vespasian calls upon him to investigate an act of treason, Falco is more than ready for a distraction. Disguised as an idle vacationer in the company of his best friend Petronius, Falco travels from the Isle of Capreae to Neapolis and all the way to the great city of Pompeii...where a whole new series of Herculean events--involving yet another conspiracy, and a fateful  meeting with his beloved Helena--are about to erupt....
  
"Davis mixes Modern sensibility [and] fascinating historical detail."--Chicago Tribune
 
"Knockabout adventure."--Kirkus Reviews

About the Author:

Lindsey Davis now writes full time. She is the author of eleven Falco novels and one historical love story, A Course of Honour. Two For the Lions won the first CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0517576120
• ISBN 13: 9780517576120
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 341