Conspirata, Robert Harris
Conspirata, Robert Harris
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Conspirata
A Novel of Ancient Rome

Author: Robert Harris

Narrator: Oliver Ford Davies

Abridged: 6 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/02/2010


Synopsis

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.

About Robert Harris

Robert Harris is the author of Pompeii, Enigma, and Fatherland. He has been a television correspondent with the BBC and a newspaper columnist for the London Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph. His novels have sold more than ten million copies and been translated into thirty languages. He lives in Berkshire, England, with his wife and four children.

About Oliver Ford Davies

Oliver Ford Davies film credits include Sense and Sensibility, Mrs Dalloway, Scandal, and Star Wars Episodes I, II and III. His numerous theatre credits include Larkin With Women, Hamlet, and David Hare's trilogy of Racing Demon (Olivier Award, Best Actor).


Reviews

Harris has written a number of books about Rome and its Empire. This one takes place just before the events that turn Rome from a republic to a dictatorship. We have all the prime characters in play: Pompey, Caesar, Crassus, Catalina, Cicero, etc. This book (as is the case with others in the series)......more

Goodreads review by Sam on October 18, 2019

I tried reading Lustrum a while ago but gave up early on, sensing that it wasn’t anywhere near as good as its preceding book, Imperium. Except I really want to read Dictator, the final book in Robert Harris’ Cicero trilogy, which I’m hoping will be awesome, and I’ve been on a Harris kick lately, so......more

Goodreads review by Allen on February 17, 2023

Such a good book. I might like book 1 slightly better if only because it takes its time more. This book is a wild ride and sometimes goes by events a little too quickly but that might just be for me because I know the history and wish we dwelled more on it. Can't wait for book 3.......more

Goodreads review by Maria on May 06, 2022

Uma Hidra Intemporal Adoro latim e Roma Antiga, e por isso Lustrum me soa tão bem! E soa-me bem por dentro e por fora, i.e., na capa, conteúdo e personagens!👍👍👍 Em Lustrum irrompemos pelo velho mundo penetrando na política de Cícero e doutros que a fizeram com ele e, por incrível que pareça… revemo-nos......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on May 02, 2011

This is a story of a gifted orator who is legally elected to lead his country during a time of great crisis, but faces incredible opposition from powerful people who use a variety of dirty tricks and propaganda techniques to enrage mobs of stupid people to subvert the law and government so they can......more


Quotes

"Republican Rome, with all its grandeur and corruption, has rarely been made as vivid." -- Nick Rennison, The Sunday Times (London)