9780099831808
Category Name : Crime & Thrillers
Author Name : Last Act in Palmyra
Publisher Name : This was my first Falco book - and it hooked me on Lindsey Davis. I think it's suggestive that at the time I was confined to hospital and yet had to be cautioned against laughing so loudly. The absurdity is that Falco, an aspiring amateur poet as well as informer, has as little acting talent as I have, but must be disguised as one on a special mission to the Middle East of the Roman period. His ham acting persists, area to area, among a genuine acting troupe, among people after people, inluding disapproving early Christians. These receive a summary response. The mission succeeds - in a sense, for Falco must as usual struggle to force his expenses out of a notoriously penny-pinching government. This takes almost as much effort as the mission itself. And all the time, hovering somewhere in background or foreground, is the indispensable Helena Justina, partner to Falco. This, I believe, would have me doubled up with laughter on my (or even someone else's) death bed - a fine way to go for all.
Minimum Price : £ 9.49
Category Name : Crime & Thrillers
Author Name : Last Act in Palmyra
Publisher Name : This was my first Falco book - and it hooked me on Lindsey Davis. I think it's suggestive that at the time I was confined to hospital and yet had to be cautioned against laughing so loudly. The absurdity is that Falco, an aspiring amateur poet as well as informer, has as little acting talent as I have, but must be disguised as one on a special mission to the Middle East of the Roman period. His ham acting persists, area to area, among a genuine acting troupe, among people after people, inluding disapproving early Christians. These receive a summary response. The mission succeeds - in a sense, for Falco must as usual struggle to force his expenses out of a notoriously penny-pinching government. This takes almost as much effort as the mission itself. And all the time, hovering somewhere in background or foreground, is the indispensable Helena Justina, partner to Falco. This, I believe, would have me doubled up with laughter on my (or even someone else's) death bed - a fine way to go for all.
Minimum Price : £ 9.49
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