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FALCO'S LIFE HISTORY

As of the latest book in the series, Falco is aged around thirty-five. A veteran of the Roman army, he still grieves for his elder brother, Festus, who was killed on active service in Judaea. Falco's father left his mother for another woman; father and son were eventually reconciled in the course of an investigation (''Poseidon's Gold'') and now see one another occasionally, but Falco's sympathies remain with his mother.

Falco met his "wife", Helena Justina, while on an investigation in Britannia (''The Silver Pigs''), but their very different circumstances made it difficult for them to form a relationship. After a series of successful missions for the emperor, Falco has risen to a certain level of respectability, and he and Helena live together with their two daughters, in an arrangement recognised by his in-laws.

The current books in the Falco series are:


PROMINENT ACQUAINTANCES

  • Helena Justina - Falco's "unofficial" wife, a senator's daughter and therefore a highly inappropriate match.

  • Lucius Petronius Longus - Falco's best friend, a policeman who puts his daughters before alcohol, but alcohol before his wife.

  • Decimus Camillus Verus - Helena's father, who tolerates Falco socially.

  • Vespasian - the Emperor .

  • Titus and Domitian , the Emperor's sons.

  • Claudius Laeta, a Roman official.

  • Sextus Julius Frontinus .

  • Anacrites, the chief spy, Falco's arch-enemy and sometime partner


Other characters include Falco's mother, his sisters and their never-ending crowd of offspring, his father Geminus (a shady antique dealer), his two children and their British nursemaid, Helena's two brothers, Falco's one-time landlord Smaractus and Smaractus' wife, Falco's former neighbour Lenia, his personal trainer Glaucus, various murderers, criminals, exotic dancers and mangy animals, all of whom spend a great deal of time making Falco's life a little harder than it would be otherwise.


POINTS OF INTEREST RAISED IN THE NOVELS

  • A Turbot is a large variety of European flatfish, brown on top and white underneath. Its Latin name is "Psetta maxima".

  • Four sesterces = one silver denarius. Twenty-five silver denarii = one gold aurius. See also Roman Currency .

  • Togidubnus , who lived at Fishbourne in Chichester , is the same man as Cogidubnus , but there is some controversy as to how his name should be spelled.

  • ''Ode to a Banker'' is a take on the Vanity Publishing industry, and ''See Delphi and Die'' deals with Mediterranean package holidays.



OTHER APPEARANCES

Falco also featured as the central character in the 1993 movie '' Age Of Treason '' (played by Australian actor, Bryan Brown ). The film was disowned by Lindsey Davis because it bore no resemblance to the books on which it purported to be based.


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