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Time to Depart
- history
- private investigators
- rome
- historical
- falco
- marcus didius (fictitious character)
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Petronius Longus, captain of the Aventine watch and Falco's oldest friend, has finally nailed one of Rome's top criminals. Under Roman law, citizens are not imprisoned but are allowed "time to depart" into exile outside the Empire. One dark and gloomy dawn, Petro and Falco put the evil Balbinus aboard a ship.
But soon after, an outbreak of robbery and murder suggests a new criminal ring has moved into Balbinus's territory. Petro and Falco must descend into the underworld of Vespasian's Rome to investigate.
Quotes
From WikiquoteHe wore the purple; it was his entitlement. With it he had neither wreath nor jewels. For him the best adornment of rank was acute native intelligence.
Smartness always helps in gaining access to the houses of the wealthy. Anyone with a clean face is acceptable to thugs.
Not all the fine civic building programmes in the world would ever displace the raw forces that drive most of humankind. This was the true city: greed, corruption and violence.
'Do you kill people?' 'Not regularly. It's too much trouble making my peace with the gods afterwards.'
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