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Gallery Books, August 2007
Trade Paperback, 320 pages
ISBN-10: 0743498666
ISBN-13: 9780743498661
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Cicero returns to continue his struggle to grasp supreme power in the state of Rome. Amidst treachery, vengeance, violence, and treason, this brilliant lawyer, orator, and philosopher finally reaches the summit of all his ambitions. Cicero becomes known as the world’s first professional politician, using his compassion and deviousness to overcome all obstacles.
Harris employs historical detail and a popular plot to give listeners a man who is by turns a sympathetic hero and power-obsessed manipulator who sets himself up for his own massive, violent ruin. This series charges forward, propelled by the strength of Harris’s stunningly fascinating prose.
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"Meticulous, absorbing and informative." - The New York Times Book Review
"A joy to read in every way." - The Independent
"An entertainingly vivid picture of one of history's most fascinating elected officials." - USA Today
"Harris's zest for political machinations serves the material well."
-- The Washington Post
"A minutely observed political novel...set during the most poignant era in ancient Roman history."
-- Newsday (New York)
"In Harris's hands the great game [of politics] becomes a beautiful one."
-- The Times (London)
"Excellent.... Full of back-biting and double-dealing, compromise and intrigue."
-- Time Out
Guardian.co.uk, September 30, 2011
...The novels of Robert Harris have predominantly been historical thrillers with atmospheric single-word titles: three turning on the second world war (Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel) and three set in ancient Rome: Pompeii, Imperium, Lustrum. ...
Guardian.co.uk, September 23, 2011
...true around me. The markets are crashing, people are blaming algorithms' Set on British general election day 2010, Robert Harris's latest novel is a characteristic combination of ripping yarn, political and historical verisimilitude and ...
Globe and Mail, December 11, 2009
...EST Lustrum, the second in Robert Harris's Roman trilogy (after Imperium), opens in 63 BC with a gruesome discovery: A young slave boy's body has been fished out of the Tiber. His throat has ...
Chronicle Herald, December 6, 2009
...women who will risk their lives to keep their town from plunging headlong into chaos. Lustrum (Hutchinson), by Robert Harris, is the sequel to Imperium. The novel continues the authors recreation of the life of Cicero (106 BC-43 BC), the ...
Sunday Star Times, November 14, 2009
...Lustrum, by Robert Harris, Hutchinson, $40. Relevant offers REVIEWERS AND interviewers have fallen over themselves pointing out the contemporary relevance of Robert Harris's latest novel about ancient Roman politics. Ah, the intrigue ...
Mail & Guardian Online, November 6, 2009
...Robert Harris combines historical fact and the drama of the day in his second novel featuring the peerless speaker and Roman statesman Cicero. Lustrum tells the story of his term as ...
Indian Express, October 20, 2009
...The British title of Robert Harris’s new novel about ancient Rome is a word with many meanings. “Lustrum” is the expiatory sacrifice that was offered every five years by the censors. From this it ...
The Economist, October 18, 2009
...Lustrum. By Robert Harris. Hutchinson; 464 pages; £18.99. To be published in America as “Conspirata” by Simon and Schuster in February. Buy from Amazon.co.uk THE British title of Robert Harris ...
Guardian Unlimited, October 16, 2009
...Illustration of Cicero addressing the Roman Senate. © Baldwin H Ward & Kathryn C Ward/Corbis In his novel Imperium, Robert Harris charted Cicero's rise to the consulship of the Roman republic. The story was narrated by Cicero's slave Tiro ...
The Scotsman, September 27, 2009
...ROBERT Harris knows all about political scheming. Some of his best friends are modern masters of the craft. Peter Mandelson, for one, is a chum of the journalist turned thriller writer ...
Telegraph, August 6, 2009
...The novelist Robert Harris has dedicated his latest book about Cicero, the Roman polymath, to Lord Mandelson. Robert Harris has dedicated his latest book to Lord Mandelson Photo: GRAHAM JEPSON Harris, the author ...
London Evening Standard, August 5, 2009
...to one of today's most compelling politicians, Peter Mandelson. The Evening Standard has learned that best-selling author Robert Harris has dedicated the second volume of his trilogy about the career of Cicero to none other than the First ...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, March 6, 2009
...book in the series, Persona Non Grata? Suggested reading Ruth Downie, Medicus; Steven Saylor, Roman Blood and Roma; Robert Harris, Imperium; Lindsey Davis, The Silver Pigs; Ben Pastor, The Water Thief; John Maddox Roberts, SPQR I: The King?s ...
Aint It Cool News, January 22, 2009
...joined the cast. THE GHOST is based on the novel by the same name written by best-selling author Robert Harris. It won the International Thriller Writers? Award for best novel of 2008. Harris joined Polanski in adapting the book for the big ...
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