With a new introduction by the author
'Laws are silent in times of war.'- Cicero
One of the great epics of political and historical fiction,The Cicero Trilogy charts the career of the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero from his mid-twenties as an ambitious young lawyer to his dramatic death more than thirty years later,pursued by an assassination squad on a cliff-top path.
The extraordinary life that unfolds between these two episodes is recounted by Cicero's private secretary,Tiro: the law cases and the speeches that made his master's name; the elections and conspiracies he fought; the rivals who contended for power around him - Pompey,Crassus,Cato,Clodius,Catalina,and,most menacingly,Caesar; and,at the heart of it all,the complex personality of Cicero himself - brilliant,cunning,duplicitous,anxious,brave,and always intensely humane.
More than ten years in the writing,and now published in a single volume for the first time,The Cicero Trilogy brings the world of the Roman republic vividly to life. Here is its grandeur,ambition and corruption; and here is its tumultuous collapse into dictatorship and anarchy - a story of the fragility of democratic institutions that holds a warning for our own time.
Publisher: CornerstoneISBN: 9781786332929Number of pages: 992Weight: 1231 gDimensions: 240 x 162 x 60 mm
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'One of the great triumphs of contemporary historical literature.'- The Times
Robert Harris
A heavyweight of historical fiction with a knack for creating page-turning political thrillers with literary credence,Robert Harris is best known for the'what if'masterpiece Fatherland and his Cicero series as well as the controversial Blairite-era roman à clef,The Ghost.
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