Lustrum
- Author Robert Harris
- Narrator Bill Wallis
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 15 hours and 36 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Historical fiction.
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What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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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
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