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Lustrum
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  • Published: 1 December 2009
  • ISBN: 9781846570445
  • Imprint: Audiobooks
  • Format: Audio CD
  • Length: 6 hr 29 min
  • Narrator: Oliver Ford Davies
  • RRP: $49.99
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Lustrum

Formats & editions
Paperback
8 July 2010
EBook
1 July 2010
Audiobook
20 Nov 2014
Audiobook
8 Oct 2009
Audio CD
1 Dec 2009
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The second audiobook in the stunning trilogy about the Roman Empire by Robert Harris, author of the acclaimed bestsellers Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Imperium and The Ghost.

The year is 63 BC. In an age of political titans, Cicero stands supreme: the senior consul of the Roman republic. But jealous rivals are determined to destroy him and seize control of the state. To thwart them will take all his guile - and will lead him, and Rome, to the brink of destruction.

Robert Harris's Lustrum is a page-turning thriller that pitches the reader into the power struggles and vicious factionalism of the Roman Republic at one of its most tumultuous moments, as Cicero is alerted to a plot to overthrow the government and take over the state. The conspiracy is led by the aristocratic politician Catalina, backed by other, shadowy factions; even Julius Caesar is implicated. Undeterred, Cicero devotes himself to exposing the treachery, and after a bloody struggle emerges triumphant.

But the gods are pitiless - and the most talented men over-reach themselves. When the sexually voracious senator and nobleman Clodius is put on trial, accused of entering a sacred women-only religious ritual
  • Published: 1 December 2009
  • ISBN: 9781846570445
  • Imprint: Audiobooks
  • Format: Audio CD
  • Length: 6 hr 29 min
  • Narrator: Oliver Ford Davies
  • RRP: $49.99
Categories:

About the author

Robert Harris

Robert Harris is the author of seventeen 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, Act of Oblivion, Precipice and Agrippa. 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.
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Praise for Lustrum

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

Intrigue and excitement all the way, brilliantly read by Oliver Ford Davies.

Kati Nicholl, Daily Express

[Lustrum] stands on its own merits as a thoroughly engaging historical novel. Republican Rome, with all its grandeur and corruption, has rarely been made as vivid as it appears in Harris's book. The allure of power and the perils that attend it have seldom been so brilliantly anatomised in a thriller.

The Sunday Times