Author:
Robert Harris
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author
Cicero Trilogy: Book #2
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Bill Wallis
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Length
15 hours 36 minutes
Language
English
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.
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 forty languages and nine of his books have been adapted for cinema and television. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.
Audiobook details
Narrator:
Bill Wallis
ISBN:
9781473517424
Length:
15 hours 36 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House
Publication date:
November 20, 2014
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#32,214 Overall
Genre rank:
#3,096 in Historical Fiction
Reviews
A read to be savoured Wry, clever, thoughtful, with a terrific sense of timing and eye for character.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
Offers great insight into the psychology of political calculation
Deeply satisfying, impeccably researched and spectacularly topical ... This is a thriller to die for ... The pace never falters, and the politics are sharply relevant Harris is the master. With Lustrum, [he] has surpassed himself. It is one of the most exciting thrillers I have ever read Harris communicates such a strong sense of imperial Rome - the book is awesomely well-informed about the minutiae of everyday life Thoroughly engaging ... The allure of power and the perils that attend it have seldom been so brilliantly anatomised in a thriller 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 Magnificent ... Better than Robert Graves's Claudius novels Expand reviews
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