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 -- Allan Massie - 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 -- Tom Holland - 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
About the Author
Robert Harris is the author of fourteen 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 and V2. His work has been translated into forty languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.