The Flight of the Falcon (Paperback)

from haymaai

Having enjoyed reading 'Rebecca' and 'The King's General,' I had hoped that 'Flight of the Falcon' by Daphne DuMaurier would capture me with its intrigue and romance as well. Unfortunately, I found myself to be rather detached while reading the novel, and I felt little connection to the main char...

from reading_fox

Not very interesting. The original premise is quite good, but badly let down by a very poor ending and some quite unbelivable plotting. Armino Donati is a tourist courier in Italy runnng coach tours around the highlights of Naples and Rome. A chance meeting with a homeless women sparks memories o...

from patrickgarson

The Flight of The Falcon is definitely not one of Du Maurier's strongest novels. Ever walking the line between a kind of neo-gothic and slipping into parody, Du Maurier stumbles a little in this one. That being said, her regular strengths are on display as usual and the book finishes with a bang....

from gypsysmom

Armino Fabbio is a courier for a tour company. While escorting a group of British and Americans (beef and barbarians as they are called in the touring business) from Florence to Naples, he gives a 10,000 lire note to a peasant woman on the steps of a church. The next day he discovers that the wom...

from Kasthu

The Flight of the Falcon is one of Daphne du Maurier's later suspense novels. Published just after The Glass-Blowers (1963) and before The House on the Strand (1969), The Flight of the Falcon is set in Rome and the town of Ruffano, Italy. Armino Fabbio is a tour guide, or courier, shepherding tou...