Imperium

Historical novelist Robert Harris, author of "Pompeii" and "Fatherland," takes us back to ancient Rome with the riveting new novel, "Imperium." This thoroughly entertaining novel tells the tale of the greatest orator of all time, Cicero. Told through the voice of Cicero's secretary and slave, Tiro, "Imperium" tells of a series of events that eventually lead Cicero into one of the most suspenseful courtroom dramas in history. Harris lures us into a violent and treacherous world of Roman politics that is at once exotically different from and yet startlingly similar to our own.