Review
"Lindsay Davis brings Imperial Rome to life." –
Ellis Peters"Her witty and literate Falco novels are models of the genre." –
Times"One can only hope that Falco will be around for as long as Flashman." –
Time Out"A rollicking narrative… its award-winning author [is] in excellent form. – Frances Fyfield
Book Description
Ode to a Banker - A witty exploration of Roman publishing and banking available for the first time in mass market paperback.
In the long, hot Roman summer of 74 AD, Marcus Didius Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for his family and friends. As usual, things get out of hand. Lindsey Davis’ twelfth Falco novel takes us from the jealousies of authorship and the mire of patronage, to the darker financial world, where default can have fatal consequences …