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Published: 4 January 2011
ISBN: 9781409021629
Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
Format: EBook
Pages: 496

Categories:

Historical fiction

Imperium

From the Sunday Times bestselling author

Robert Harris

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BOOK ONE IN THE CICERO TRILOGY FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR

'Masterful' Sunday Times

'Gripping and accomplished' Guardian

'Truly gifted, razor-sharp' Daily Telegraph

Ancient Rome teems with ambitious and ruthless men. None is more brilliant than Marcus Cicero. A rising young lawyer, backed by a shrewd wife, he decides to gamble everything on one of the most dramatic courtroom battles of all time. Win it, and he could win control of Rome itself. Lose it, and he is finished forever.

Imperium is an epic account of the timeless struggle for power and the sudden disintegration of a society.

'In Harris' hands, the great game becomes a beautiful one' The Times

'A further step forward by this brilliant man who excels in everything he writers' Sunday Telegraph

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Published: 4 January 2011
ISBN: 9781409021629
Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
Format: EBook
Pages: 496

Categories:

Historical fiction

About the author

Robert Harris

Robert Harris is the author of thirteen 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 and The Second Sleep. Several of his books have been filmed, including The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. 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. His next book, V2, is coming out in autumn 2020.

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Praise for Imperium

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

Fascinating … Imperium masterfully dramatises issues not only pertinent to a vanished world but to our own
Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times

Harris [is] a truly gifted, razor-sharp writer... Enormously entertaining
Daily Telegraph