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Title: Ode to a Banker
Subtitle: Falco, Book 12
Author: Lindsey Davis
Narrator: Gordon Griffin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-12-15
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
"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.
Critic Reviews:
"Davis's writing zings with fun." (Daily Mail)
