Lindsey Davis
Lindsey Davis, historical novelist, was born in Birmingham, England in 1949. Having taken a degree in English literature at Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall), she became a civil servant. She left the civil service after 13 years, and when a romantic novel she had written was runner up for the 1985 Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize, she decided to become a writer, writing at first romantic serials for the UK women's magazine Woman's Realm.Her interest in history and archaeology led to her writing a historical novel about Vespasian and his lover Antonia Caenis (The Course of Honour), for which she couldn't find a publisher. She tried again, and her first novel featuring the Roman "detective", Marcus Didius Falco, The Silver Pigs, set in the same time period and published in 1989, was the start of her runaway success as a writer of historical whodunnits. A further nineteen Falco novels and Falco: The Official Companion have followed, as well as The Course of Honour, which was finally published in 1998. Rebels and Traitors, set in the period of the English Civil War, was published in September 2009. Davis has won many literary awards, and was honorary president of the Classical Association from 1997 to 1998.
La plata de Britania
Lindsey Davis
Roma, año 70 d. C. Bajo el ardiente sol de agosto, Marco Didio Falco –cínico informante de ideas republicanas– se topa en el Foro con una joven en apuros, Sosia Camilina. La bella joven se encuentra envuelta en una conspiración para derrocar al emperador Vespasiano, relacionada con el tráfico de lingotes de plata de Britania. Falco se apresura a convertirla en una cliente de la que espera conseguir pingües beneficios con el fin de mejorar su mermada economía. Pero no consigue salvarla del ataque de unos peligrosos matones y acepta ser contratado por el tío de la joven, el senador Décimo Camilo Vero, y por el emperador Vespasiano, para embarcar hacia Britania a fin de destapar la conspiración. Una vez allí, Falco conoce a una mujer de clase alta, Helena Justina, hija del Senador que le contrató. Ambos se profesan una mutua aversión desde el primer momento: él odia su clase y ella odia sus prejuicios. Para acometer su misión Falco se infiltrará en una mina de plata como un esclavo, donde conocerá el significado de las palabras «odio», «miedo» y «abuso».
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