The Flight of the Falcon

A quiet Englishman visiting an Italian city becomes entangled with his enigmatic brother, whose obsessive ambition to revive a dark historical legacy leads to manipulation, betrayal, and a tragic confrontation.

"In du Maurier's fiction, she unflinchingly exposed hard truths." -Times (UK)

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...