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 Two for the Lions - Lindsey Davis
 Two for the Lions - Lindsey Davis ... 1999-06-03 by Arrow Books Ltd (London)Newest Review: ... well. Falco himself is a very well drawn character, his fraught family life giving him a believable hinterland beyond his ... more ... work as an informer. I do feel that some of the later books in the series suffer very slightly from the benefits that some of his successes have brought him, and that he's actually a rather more likeable character when he's having to struggle for every crust.
Anacrites is a wonderful villain, a man who could be a perfect Grand Vizier in a pantomime. This makes him much more interesting than the standard brutish heavies that operate at less rarefied levels of power, and the tension that is created by throwing him and F...more |
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Two for the Lions - Lindsey Davis: The lion sleeps... for ever! (919 words)
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The Marcus Didius Falco series of detective novels by Lindsey Davis, starring the eponymous central character as a private eye in Vespasian's Rome (the 70s AD), have now firmly established themselves as among the finest examples of their type, and have been extremely successful: the twentieth book in the series will be published in June of next year. Davis herself, whose website at lindseydavis.com reveals both fun and forthrightness in her character, seems yet to run out of ideas. Two for the Lions is book ten in the sequence, having been published in 1998. The plot is dramatic: Falco, forced into an unwilling partnership with his (at times deadly) rival, the ... Read the complete review
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