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Conspirata: A Novel of Ancient Rome

Conspirata: A Novel of Ancient Rome

Harris, Robert

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 0743266110
ISBN13: 9780743266116
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: Feb 1 2011
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
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.

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