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A Novel of Ancient Rome
Simon and Schuster
September 2006
On Sale: September 19, 2006
320 pages
ISBN: 074326603X
EAN: 9780743266031
Hardcover
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Fiction | Historical
When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a
Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a
cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events
that will eventually propel his master into one of the
most suspenseful courtroom dramas in history. The stranger
is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman
governor, Verres. The senator is Marcus Cicero -- an
ambitious young lawyer and spellbinding orator, who at the
age of twenty-seven is determined to attain imperium --
supreme power in the state. Of all the great figures of the Roman world, none was more
fascinating or charismatic than Cicero. And Tiro -- the
inventor of shorthand and author of numerous books,
including a celebrated biography of his master (which was
lost in the Dark Ages) -- was always by his side. Compellingly written in Tiro's voice, Imperium is the re-
creation of his vanished masterpiece, recounting in vivid
detail the story of Cicero's quest for glory, competing
with some of the most powerful and intimidating figures of
his -- or any other -- age: Pompey, Caesar, Crassus, and
the many other powerful Romans who changed history. Robert Harris, the world's master of innovative historical
fiction, lures us into a violent, treacherous world of
Roman politics at once exotically different from and yet
startlingly similar to our own -- a world of Senate
intrigue and electoral corruption, special prosecutors and
political adventurism -- to describe how one clever,
compassionate, devious, vulnerable man fought to reach the
top.
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