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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. ...
