The Flight of the Falcon: Complete & Unabridged

Daphne Du Maurier

ISBN 10: 0754004791 ISBN 13: 9780754004790

Publisher: Chivers Audio Books, 2000

As a young guide for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum life – until he becomes circumstantially involved in the murder of an old peasant woman in Rome. The woman, he gradually comes to realise, was his family's beloved servant many years ago, in his native town of Ruffano. He returns to his birthplace, and once there, finds it is haunted by the phantom of his brother, Aldo, shot down in flames in '43. Over 500 years before, the sinister Duke Claudio, known as The Falcon, lived his twisted, brutal life, preying on the people of Ruffano. But now it is the 20th century, and the town seems to have forgotten its violent history. But have things really changed? The parallels between the past and present become ever more evident.

Review:

'It is a dark, harsh tale of good and evil, with family secrets unearthed ... James Callis's reading is very good, with fine pacing and easily distinguishable voices.' (Library Journal)

‘One of the last century’s most original literary talents.’ (The Daily Telegraph)

Book Description:

A tale of good and evil, in a haunted town in Italy whose distant and terrifying past comes alive again, five centuries later.