Imperium by Robert Harris - ISBN: 9780099527664
Paperback
Ambitious lawyer risks all to control Rome in this epic tale.

Imperium

From the Sunday Times bestselling author

$23.55

  • Paperback

    512 pages

  • Release Date

    1 October 2009

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Summary

BOOK ONE IN THE CICERO TRILOGY FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR

‘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 he is fin…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099527664
ISBN-10:0099527669
Author:Robert Harris
Publisher:Cornerstone
Imprint:Arrow Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:512
Release Date:1 October 2009
Weight:346g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 33mm
Series:Cicero Trilogy
What They're Saying

Critics Review

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 to 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 *Fascinating … Imperium masterfully dramatises issues not only pertinent to a vanished world but to our own * The Sunday Times *

Harris [is] a truly gifted, razor-sharp writer… Enormously entertaining

* Daily Telegraph *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 *

About The Author

Robert Harris

Robert Harris is the author of sixteen 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, Act of Oblivion and Precipice. His work has been translated into forty languages and nine of his books have been adapted for cinema and television. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.

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