Lindsey Davis: The Iron Hand Of Mars

Lindsey Davis: The Iron Hand Of Mars (UK 2013)

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Death lies beyond the river Rhine...
AD 71: Germania Libera: dark dripping forests, inhabited by bloodthirsty barbarians and legendary wild beasts, a furious prophetess who terrorises Rome, and the ghostly spirits of slaughtered Roman legionaries.

Enter Marcus Didius Falco, an Impreisal agent on a special mission: to find the absconding commander of a legion whose loyalty is suspect. Easier said than done, thinks Marcus, as he makes his uneasy way down the Rhenus, trying to forget that back in sunny Rome his girlfriend Helena Justina is being hotly pursued by Titus Caesar. His mood is not improved when he discovers his only allies are a woefully inadequate bunch of recruits, their embittered centurion, a rogue dog, and its innocent young master; just the right kind of support for an agent unwillingly trying to tame the Celtic hordes.

Lindsey Davis: The Iron Hand Of Mars. A Marcus Didius Falco Novel. Arrow, ISBN: 9780099515081 (April, 2013), 352 p., £8.99.

Lindsey Davis: The Iron Hand Of Mars (UK 2008)

Lindsey Davis: The Iron Hand Of Mars. A Marcus Didius Falco Novel. Arrow, ISBN: 9780099515081 (February, 2008), 352 p., £7.99.

Lindsey Davis: The Iron Hand Of Mars (UK 1996)

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With Titus Caesar in pursuit of his patrician girlfriend Helena, Marcus Didius Falco, the louche Roman sleuth is sent out of the way on an undercover mission to Roman Germany, where there has been trouble with the natives. There he must exercise his doubtful diplomatic skills on the very uncivil Civilis, a one-eyed Batavian rebel chieftain and must also persuade Veleda, a sinister tribal prophetess to desist from incessant rabble-rousing. But every rustling leaf heralds the approach of ancient ghosts, headhunting tribesmen, or primeval animals...

Lindsey Davis: The Iron Hand Of Mars. Arrow, ISBN: 0099200910 (June, 1996), 352 p., £5.99.

Lindsey Davis: The Iron Hand Of Mars (USA 1994)

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When wild Germanic troops in the service of the Empire begin to rebel, and a Roman general disappears, the worried Emperor Vespasian turns to the one man he can trust: Marcus Didius Falco, Imperial Rome's answer to Columbo.

To Falco, an undercover tour of Germania is an assignment from Hades. On a journey that only a stoic could survive, Falco meets with disarray, torture, and murder. His one hope: in the northern forest lives a powerful Druid priestess who perhaps can be persuaded to cease her anti-Rome activities and work for peace. On the other hand, Falco may just be more grist for the mill...

Lindsey Davis: The Iron Hand Of Mars. A Detective Novel in Ancient Rome. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 034538024X (August, 1994), 309 p., $4.99.

Lindsey Davis: The Iron Hand Of Mars (USA 1993)

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"Lindsey Davis doesn't merely make history come alive -- she turns it into spanking entertainment and wraps it around an intriguing mystery. She is incapable of writing a dull sentence." -- PETER LOVESEY

"Lindsey Davis continues her explora- tion of Vespasian's Rome and Marcus Didius Falco's Italy with the same wit and gusto that made Silver Pigs such a dazzling debut and her rueful, self-dep- recating hero so irresistibly likeable. I propose to follow every stage of his determined progress toward theknightly status that will win him his Helena Justina, every inch a match for him." -- ELLIS PETERS

Marcus Didius Falco, Imperial Rome's answer to Columbo, is on the case, in trouble again, and off to barbarian Germany in the latest of Lindsey Davis's antiquarian detective thrillers.

Sent out of the way by the Titus Caesar, who is hot in pursuit of Falco's patrician girlfriend, Helena, Falco is on an undercover mission to Roman Germany. There he faces decidedly restless natives, Civilis -- a very uncivil Batavian rebel chieftain -- and the fa- mous XIV Gemina legion, who are after Falco's blood in revenge for old grudges. Baffled as usual, Falco crosses into barbar- ian territory. The omens are bad as Falco enters the forest accompanied only by an ingenue tribune, a troubled centurion, and twenty very dim recruits.

Will Falco stumble on success in this tumultuous and troubled territory? Will he be able to fend off the Emperor's son and hold on to the fair Helena? The only certainty is that readers can count on Falco to fight for truth, justice, and the Roman way.

Lindsey Davis: The Iron Hand Of Mars. A Detective Novel in Ancient Rome. Crown Publ., ISBN: 0517592401 (August, 1993), 305 p., $20.00.

Lindsey Davis: The Iron Hand Of Mars (UK 1993)

From the Publisher:
AD 71. Germania Libera: dark dripping forests, inhabited by bloodthirsty barbarians and legendary wild beasts, a furious prophetess who terrorises Rome, and the ghostly spirits of slaughtered Roman legionaries.

Enter Marcus Didius Falco, an Imperial agent on a special mission: to find the absconding commander of a legion whose loyalty is suspect. Easier said than done, thinks Marcus, as he makes his uneasy way down the Rhenus, trying to forget that back in sunny Rome his girlfriend Helena Justina is being hotly pursued by Titus Caesar. His mood is not improved when he discovers his only allies are a woefully inadequate bunch of recruits, their embittered centurion, a rogue dog, and its innocent young master; just the right kind of support for an agent unwillingly trying to tame the Celtic hordes.

Lindsey Davis: The Iron Hand Of Mars. Arrow, ISBN: 0099200910 (June, 1993), 352 p., £4.99.