Lustrum

Lustrum by Robert Harris (Arrow, 2009)
📚 Sold with suspicious pride by Crappy Old Books

Step into the backstabbing, toga-tossing world of Ancient Rome — where ambition is deadly, loyalty is optional, and the speeches are long enough to kill a man.

In Lustrum (or Conspirata, for our friends across the pond), Robert Harris continues his brilliant trilogy on Cicero, the sharp-tongued orator clawing his way through the blood-soaked corridors of Roman power. Told through the weary eyes of his slave-secretary Tiro, this is a political thriller in a bedsheet, and no one does it quite like Harris.

Will Cicero’s ideals survive the creeping corruption of Caesar and Catiline? Will anyone shut up long enough to let him finish a sentence? Will this battered paperback hold together until the final chapter?

A must-read for lovers of history, politics, and books that smell like they’ve lived a life.

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