Prominent Acquaintances
- Helena Justina – Falco's "unofficial" wife, a senator's daughter and therefore a highly inappropriate match.
- Lucius Petronius (Petro) Longus – Falco's best friend from army days, a watch captain in the Vigiles who puts his daughters before alcohol, but alcohol before his wife. Petro develops a "friendship" with Falco's temperamental sister, Maia.
- Decimus Camillus Verus – Helena's father, who tolerates Falco socially.
- Vespasian – the Emperor.
- Titus and Domitian, the Emperor's sons, the one being a treasure and the other a trial.
- Claudius Laeta, a Roman official.
- Sextus Julius Frontinus.
- Anacrites, the chief spy, Falco's arch-enemy and sometime partner
Other characters include Falco's mother, his sisters, their husbands and their never-ending crowd of offspring; his father Geminus (the shady antiques dealer); his two children and their British nursemaid Albia, whom Marcus and Helena have adopted; Helena's mother and two brothers Aulus Camillus Aelianus and Quintus Camillus Justinianus; Falco's one-time landlord Smaractus; the laundry proprietor Lenia, Smaractus' wife and Falco's former neighbour; Falco's personal trainer Glaucus; and various murderers, criminals, exotic dancers, and mangy animals, all of whom spend a great deal of time making Falco's life a little harder than it would be otherwise.
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