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Last Act in Palmyra

Falco, Book 6

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'I was just a freelance hero doing his best in a hard world.'

The spirit of adventure calls Falco on a new spying mission for the Emperor Vespasian to the untamed East. He's picking up extra fees from his old friend Thalia the snake dancer as he searches for Sophrona, her lost water organist. With the Chief Spy Anacrites paying his fare, Falco knows anything can go wrong.

A dangerous brush with the Brother, the sinister ruler of Nabataean Petra, sends Falco and his girlfriend Helena on a fast camel-ride to Syria. Here they join a travelling theatre group, which keeps losing members in non-accidental drownings. The bad acting and poor audiences are almost as bad as the desert and its scorpions - then as the killer hovers, Falco tries to write a play.

©1996 Lindsey Davis (P)2014 Audible Ltd Crime Fiction Historical Mystery Fiction Espionage Crime
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Disappointing this time - I'm usually a big fan of Falco but this story is far too long and has a terrible narrator. Probably the most disappointing of all the Falco stories.

Too long and badly narrated

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I am a great fan with of the author, tge, series and the character but this book needed editing. It was, simply too long and the story and plot foundered in the detail. A good editor wouod improve this.

Beautifully read as always

Last act was a long time coming

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This was as great as other falco books
Although I was looking forward to it with trepidation as I love rodska renditions I soon got used to the narrator and found I couldn't put it down - twist may have been a bit obvious but a great ride getting there

A great road story

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I enjoy these stories and am working my way through the series. However I find the narration slightly annoying with emphases and pauses that sometimes break the sense of the sentences.

Engaging plot, slightly annoying narration

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Under the guise of a Roman road trip, this Falco adventure is welcome for the close charting of Falco’s developing relationship with Helena. She acts as a counter-balance and fount of wisdom. The close association between the wider group of characters on the trips between distant towns, desert and finally a Roman haven constantly adjusts the listener/reader’s guessing about the villain/s. For me I can do without some of the lewdness but this is a minor consideration. The attention is still held. Listeners/readers will be sustained by the quality of Falco ‘brand’. The narrator is genuinely proficient enough, though the voice characterisation sometimes irks, not least when the voice of a main character in Susanna Gregory’s Thomas Chaloner novels appears in this Falco. The voice, overall, is simply too mature. The fault lies, perhaps, in Audible’s commissioning in my view. I now anticipate with relish Book 7.

Roman Road Trip - Sand in the Sandals

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