Conspirata : a novel of ancient Rome / Robert Harris.
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TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010.Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover edDescription: x, 340 p. : maps ; 25 cmISBN: - 0743266102
- 141654576X (ebook)
- 141659552X (export)
- 9780743266109
- 9781416545767 (ebook)
- 9781416595526 (export)
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Main Library | Fiction | Harris, Robert | CI 2 | Checked out | 05/21/2024 | 33111007469881 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Conspirata is "a portrait of ancient politics as a blood sport," raves the New York Times . As he did with Imperium , Robert Harris again turns Roman history into a gripping thriller as Cicero faces a new power struggle in a world filled with treachery, violence, and vengeance.
On the eve of Cicero's inauguration as consul of Rome, a grisly discovery sends fear rippling through a city already racked by unrest. A young slave boy has been felled by a hammer, his throat slit and his organs removed, apparently as a human sacrifice. For Cicero, the ill omens of this hideous murder only increase his dangerous situation: elected leader by the people but despised by the heads of the two rival political camps. Caught in a shell game that leaves him forever putting out fires only to have them ignite elsewhere, Cicero plays for the future of the republic . . . and his life. There is a plot to assassinate him, abetted by a rising young star of the Roman senate named Gaius Julius Caesar--and it will take all the embattled consul's wit, strength, and force of will to stop the plot and keep Rome from becoming a dictatorship.
Map on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references.
On the eve of Marcus Cicero's inauguration as consul of Rome, the grisly death of a boy sends ripples of fear thourgh a city already wracked by civil unrest, crime, and debauchery of every kind. For Cicero, the ill forebodings of this hideous murder only increase his frustrations and the dangers he already faces as Rome's leader: elected by the people but despised by the heads of the two rival camps, the patricians and populists. There is, also a plot to assassinate him, and it will take all his embattled wit, strength, and force of will to stop it and keep Rome from becoming a dictatorship.