Lustrum
From the Sunday Times bestselling author
$23.46
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
8 July 2010
Summary
FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR
‘A pure thriller … wry, clever, thoughtful, with a terrific sense of timing and eye for character’ Observer
‘No one delivers thrilling yet timeless games of power, sex, fame and Rome like Robert Harris’ Sunday Telegraph
Rome, 63 BC. Seven men are struggling for power – Cicero the consul, Caesar his ruthless rival, Pompey the republic’s greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath and C…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099406327 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099406322 |
| Author: | Robert Harris |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 8 July 2010 |
| Weight: | 334g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 131mm x 34mm |
| Series: | Cicero Trilogy |
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Critics Review
Harris is the master. With Lustrum , [he] has surpassed himself. It is one of the most exciting thrillers I have ever read
Harris is the master. With Lustrum, [he] has surpassed himself. It is one of the most exciting thrillers I have ever read * 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 * Standpoint *A read to be savoured * Scotland on Sunday *Wry, clever, thoughtful, with a terrific sense of timing and eye for character. * Observer *
Thrillingly paced and narrated … What grips most about Lustrum is the seriousness with which the political issues at stake are taken, and the vividness of the characterisation
* Spectator *Offers great insight into the psychology of political calculation
* Independent *Deeply satisfying, impeccably researched and spectacularly topical … This is a thriller to die for … The pace never falters, and the politics are sharply relevant * Daily Mail *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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