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Portrait of Janwillem van de Wetering Photo: Peter Peitsch (1993) / www.peitschphoto.com

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Wetering, Janwillem van de

Janwillem (actually Jan Willem) van de Wetering was a Dutch author born in Rotterdam to a merchant family. After graduating with a degree in business administration, van de Wetering travelled to Cape Town at the age of nineteen. He had been offered a job by one of his father’s business contacts, but he lost it when he refused to move to Johannesburg. He remained in South Africa for another six y...

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Marcus Didius Falco

Gender: Male

Former Roman soldier who, after having fought in Britannia, settles in Rome as a ‘private informer’ at the end of the 1st century A.D. He marries Helena Justina, a senator’s daughter, and they build a family. In Lindsey Davis’ last (?) novel about him, he seems to die, but there is some uncertainty about that. His role as a problem-solver is then taken over by his adoptive daughter Flavia Albia.

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