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The Falco Iron Hand of Mars

by Lindsey Davis
Anna Madeley
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Anton Lesser and Anna Madeley star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the fourth novel in Lindsey Davis's bestselling series featuring Roman private eye Falco. The Iron Hand of Mars sees Falco being dispatched to one of the most hostile parts of the Empire to deliver a new standard - an iron hand - to one of the legions. Germania is cold, wet, dismal and full of dark forests inhabited by bloodthirsty barbarians, but Falco has an even bigger problem to worry about: he has forgotten Helena Justina's birthday, and she is being pursued by the Emperor's son Titus Caesar. As Falco makes his way through dangerous territory, he encounters the aftermath of a grisly crime, investigates the case of a missing legate, gets into trouble with a centurion and has a fateful encounter with a Celtic priestess and a giant bull. With the help of his travelling companions - Helena's tribune brother Justinus, redundant barber Xanthus and Helveticus - Falco must try to complete his most deadly mission yet... 'The Iron Hand of Mars' follows on from BBC Radio 4's hugely successful dramatisations of 'The Silver Pigs', 'Shadows in Bronze' and 'Venus in Copper'. Anna Madeley returns as Helena Justina, along with Ben Crowe as Falco's best friend Petronius, Jonathan Keeble as Titus Caesar and Michael Tudor Barnes as Vespasian.

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    November 5, 2007

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781405609678
      • File size: 80444 KB
      • Duration: 02:47:35

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This is the fourth of Davis's novels featuring ancient Roman detective Marcus Didius Falco (Anton Lesser). The BBC is known worldwide for its full-cast dramatizations, and this gutsy interpretation does not disappoint. Falco is dispatched to rainy, forested Germania, where he must sweet-talk a Celtic priestess to avert a rebellion, find a missing legate, and track down his errant girlfriend, Helena Justina (playfully characterized by Anna Madeley), who disappears after he forgets her birthday. All this takes place while Falco is accompanied by a barber he suspects of being a spy AND while he is lugging the cumbersome iron hand of Mars, the new standard for the fearsome 14th legion. C.A.T. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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