Lustrum

The year is 63 BC.
Rome a city at the heart of a vast empire, the setting for a titanic power struggle. Cicero is consul, Caesar a ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic’s greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath, Clodius an ambitious playboy.

The lives of these historical figures – their alliances and betrayals, their cruelties and seductions, their brilliance and their crimes – are all woven together in this epic novel. This the second glimpse into the life of Cicero brought to us by his secretary slave Tiro, takes us deeper into the rotten heart of Roman politics first seen in Imperium.
464 pages