Lustrum: From the Sunday Times bestselling author (Cicero Trilogy, 5)

Lustrum: From the Sunday Times bestselling author (Cicero Trilogy, 5)

by RobertHarris (Author)

Synopsis

Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power. Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic's greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath, Clodius an ambitious playboy. The stories of these real historical figures - their alliances and betrayals, their cruelties and seductions, their brilliance and their crimes - are all interleaved to form this epic novel. Its narrator is Tiro, a slave who serves as confidential secretary to the wily, humane, complex Cicero. He knows all his master's secrets - a dangerous position to be in. From the discovery of a child's mutilated body, through judicial execution and a scandalous trial, to the brutal unleashing of the Roman mob, Lustrum is a study in the timeless enticements and horrors of power.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 452
Edition: 1
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 08 Jul 2010

ISBN 10: 0099406322
ISBN 13: 9780099406327
Book Overview: The stunning new novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of An Officer and a Spy, Pompeii, Imperium and The Ghost.

Media Reviews
Harris is the master. With Lustrum, [he] has surpassed himself. It is one of the most exciting thrillers I have ever read -- Peter Jones * Evening Standard *
Harris communicates such a strong sense of Imperial Rome - the book is awesomely well-informed about the minutiae of everyday life * Guardian *
Thoroughly engaging ... The allure of power and the perils that attend it have seldom been so brilliantly anatomised in a thriller * Sunday Times *
Harris never makes his comparisons between Rome and modern Britain explicit, but they are certainly there. And that's the principal charm of his ancient thrillers - their up-to-dateness * Sunday Telegraph *
Magnificent ... Better than Robert Graves's Claudius novels -- Allan Massie * Standpoint *
Author Bio
Robert Harris is the author of twelve bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave and most recently, Munich. Several of his books have been filmed, including The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.