![]() ![]() So when Emperor Vespasian assigns Falco a task that will take him out of Rome, he can't wait. The high-born woman he fell in love with, Helena Justina, has broken off their stormy, impossible affair. ![]() It's the first century CE in Rome and informer and occasional imperial agent Marcus Didius Falco is miserable. When she confesses that she is fleeing for her life, Falco offers to help her and, in doing so, he gets himself mixed up in a deadly plot involving stolen ingots, dangerous and dark political machinations, and, most hazardous of all, one Helena Justina, a brash, indomitable senator's daughter who is connected to the very traitors that Falco has sworn to expose. Immediately he senses that something is amiss. ![]() Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer with a knack for trouble, a tendency for bad luck, and a frequently inconvenient drive for justice, encounters the young and very pretty Sosia Camillina in the Forum. Discover Lindsey Davis's beloved, long-running series featuring private informer Marcus Didius Falco, set in first-century CE Rome. ![]()
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