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Last Act in Palmyra is the sixth book in the bestselling Falco series by Lindsey Davis.
The spirit of adventure calls Marcus Didius Falco on a new spying mission for Emperor Vespasian to the untamed East. He picks 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 hasty camel ride to Syria. They join a travelling theater group, which keeps losing members in non-accidental drownings. The bad acting and poor audiences are almost as bad as the desert and its scorpionsâ??then as the killer hovers, Falco tries to write a play.… (meer)
I found this not quite as beguiling as the previous series entry, but still very enjoyable. Falco is sent to what we now call the Middle East, possibly to get rid of him, of course. Helena accompanies him (a little far-fetched), and they fall in in with a group of traveling players before the real action starts. There are whiffs of Mr. Micawber, and more than a whiff of Hamlet in the play Falco finally decides to write. But the grit of the desert, the dangers of the factions, the bustle of the oases are all quite vivid. Some not-quite-justifiable crises serve to gather all the various vested interests in time to, as Falco would say, sort things out. ( )
So far this is my least favourite of the Falco series. It lacks the pace and excitement of the other books. in this we are dragged through the deserts of Syria, Palestine and Jordan to very little purpose other than to get Falco and Helena out of Rome for a bit. I finished it in the vague hope that it might improve once they reached the next of the ten towns, unfortunately my faith was misplaced. ( )
Hasta ahora el peor de la serie, con un doble encargo Didio y Helena van a Medio Oriente donde terminan viajando con una compañia de teatro ambulante, tratando de ubicar un asesino. Previsible floja ( )
Las cosas no marchan bien en Roma para Marco Didio Falco, que debe aceptar una misión en Oriente para ganarse la vida. Junto a su inseparable Helena Justina, se integrarán en una compañÃa de teatro en la que se han producido varios asesinatos.
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'There comes a time in everyone's life when he feels he was born to be an actor. Something within him tells him he is the coming man, and that one day he will electrify the world. Then he burns with a desire to show them how the thing's done, and to draw a salary of three hundred a week...' Jerome K. Jerome
'And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them; for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered...' William Shakespeare
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For Janet ('Six o'clock; first there bags a table...') with neither gunshots nor simulated rape - and only one insult to lawyers!
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'Somebody could get killed here!' Helena exclaimed.
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Thalia winked at Helena. 'He told me he was leaving home to seek employment taming tigers.' 'Taming Helena takes all my time,' I got in. 'He told me,' Helena said to Thalia, as if I had never spoken, 'he was a tycoon with big olive vineyards in Samnium, and that if I tickled his fancy he would show me the Seven Wonders of the World.' 'Well, we all make mistakes,' Thalia sympathised.
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The reverberating chords of the water organ rose above the desert, so all the camels were stilled by a wild music that was even more powerful, even louder, and (I fear) even more ridiculous than their own.
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First published in 1994 in UK by Century Random House UK Ltd., London. First U.S. printing in 1996 in hardcover by Mysterious Press, New York. First printed in paperback in Jan. 1997 by Mysterious Press
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Last Act in Palmyra is the sixth book in the bestselling Falco series by Lindsey Davis.
The spirit of adventure calls Marcus Didius Falco on a new spying mission for Emperor Vespasian to the untamed East. He picks 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 hasty camel ride to Syria. They join a travelling theater group, which keeps losing members in non-accidental drownings. The bad acting and poor audiences are almost as bad as the desert and its scorpionsâ??then as the killer hovers, Falco tries to write a play.
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