Ode to a Banker

Falco, Book 12

De: Lindsey Davis

Narrado por: Gordon Griffin

"The first concern of an author is to do down his colleagues."

In the long, hot Roman summer of AD 74, Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for his family and friends. Things get out of hand, as usual. The event is taken over by Aurelius Chrysippus, a wealthy Greek banker and patron to a group of struggling writers, who offers to publish Falco's work. A visit to the Chrysippus scriptorium implicates Falco in a gruesome literary murder, so when commissioned to investigate, Falco is forced to accept.

Lindsey Davis' twelfth novel wittily explores Roman publishing and banking, taking us from the jealousies of authorship and the mire of patronage to the darker financial world, where default can have fatal consequences.

©2000 Lindsey Davis (P)2015 Audible, Ltd

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Davis's writing zings with fun." ( Daily Mail)

Super fun, as always

I love this series (I know I’ll be sad when I’ve finished them). This time it’s banking and book publishing surrounding the murder mystery in Ancient Rome. As always, together with the fun and mystery, we’ve got our cast of characters and we learn about Roman and Greek banking practices. I can’t recommend this series enough! Gordon Griffin does a great job, as always. There are several narrators in the series - it always takes a bit of time to switch from one to the other, but they all are excellent.