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When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres.Read More

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  • Foyles

    ***PRE-ORDER THE SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION OF PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS, NOW. PUBLISHING AUGUST 2024, AVAILABLE ONLY WHILE STOCK LASTS AND EXCLUSIVE TO THE FIRST PRINT RUN***'Masterful' Sunday Times'Gripping and accomplished' Guardian'Truly gifted, razor-sharp' Daily TelegraphAncient 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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    When Tiro the confidential secretary of a Roman senator opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor Verres. The senator is Cicero a brilliant young lawyer and spellbinding orator determined to attain imperium - supreme power in the state. This is the starting-point of Robert Harris' most accomplished novel to date. Compellingly written in Tiro's voice it takes us inside the violent treacherous world of Roman politics to describe how one man - clever compassionate devious vulnerable - fought to reach the top.

  • TheBookPeople

    The first in a critically acclaimed series set in Ancient Rome, Robert Harris's Imperium is the fictional biography of Cicero, as told by his secretary Tiro. When Tiro opens the door to a terrified Sicilian stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events that will culminate in his master partaking in one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. Detailing the violent and treacherous world of Roman politics, this novel describes how one clever, compassionate, devious and vulnerable man fought to reach the top. This is a gripping historical novel from the author of Fatherland and Pompeii.

  • BookDepository

    Imperium : Paperback : Cornerstone : 9780099527664 : 0099527669 : 02 Nov 2009 : When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres.

  • 0099527669
  • 9780099527664
  • Robert Harris
  • 1 October 2009
  • Arrow Books Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 496
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