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Imperium: From the Sunday Times bestselling author
Robert Harris
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Description for Imperium: From the Sunday Times bestselling author
Paperback. When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. Series: Cicero Trilogy. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 346. 480pp
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'Masterful' Sunday Times
'Gripping and accomplished' Guardian
'Truly gifted, razor-sharp' Daily Telegraph
Ancient Rome teems with ambitious and ruthless men. None is more brilliant than Marcus Cicero. A rising young lawyer, backed by a shrewd wife, he decides to gamble everything on one of the most dramatic courtroom battles of all time. Win it, and he could win control of Rome itself. Lose it, and ... Read morehe is finished forever.
Imperium is an epic account of the timeless struggle for power and the sudden disintegration of a society.
'In Harris' hands, the great game becomes a beautiful one' The Times
'A further step forward by this brilliant man who excels in everything he writers' Sunday Telegraph
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About Robert Harris
Robert Harris is the author of fifteen 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, Munich, The Second Sleep, V2 and Act of Oblivion. His work has been translated into ... Read moreforty languages and nine of his books have been adapted for cinema and television. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby. Show Less
Reviews for Imperium: From the Sunday Times bestselling author
Harris's best so far, rapid and compelling in narrative, copious in detail, thoroughly researched but also, which is more important, thoroughly imagined... Irresistible
Sunday Telegraph
In Harris's hands, the great game becomes a beautiful one
The Times
Genres ancient and modern have rarely been so skilfully synthesised... Gripping and accomplished
The Guardian
A joy ... Read moreto read in every way, and as a mirror to the politics of our present age has no equal
The Independent
Harris deploys the devices of the thriller writer to trace the perils and triumphs of Cicero's ascent ... A finely accomplished recreation of the power struggles of more than two millenniums ago
The Observer
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