Lustrum (Vol.2 Cicero's Trilogy)

In this second novel of the Cicero Trilogy, Harris provides the reader with a shocking immersion into the violent and treacherous world of Roman politics. In 63 BC, as Rome is poised to expand its influence and wealth, seven men vie for power: Cicero, the powerful consul; Caesar, his young and cruel rival; Pompey, the Republic's foremost general; Grasso, the Empire's most prosperous Roman; Cato, a fanatical politician; Clodius, an extremely ambitious heir; and the psychopathic Catalina. The lives of these historical figures—their pacts and betrayals, their cruelties and seductions, their victories and crimes—are exposed in this gripping portrait of one of the Roman Empire's most defining periods. Cicero uses all his intelligence and cunning to prevent Rome from plunging into a dictatorship of alliances, crimes and disloyalty.