The Cicero Trilogy av Robert Harris

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<p><b>______________________________</b><br><b>''One of the great triumphs of contemporary historical literature.'' <i>The Times</i></b><br><br><b>______________________________</b><br><b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR</b><br><br><b>''Laws are silent in times of war.'' Cicero</b><br><br>One of the great epics of political and historical fiction, <i>The Cicero Trilogy </i>charts the career of the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero from his mid-twenties as an ambitious young lawyer to his dramatic death more than thirty years later, pursued by an assassination squad on a cliff-top path.<br><br>The extraordinary life that unfolds between these two episodes is recounted by Cicero''s private secretary, Tiro: the law cases and the speeches that made his master''s name; the elections and conspiracies he fought; the rivals who contended for power around him - Pompey, Crassus, Cato, Clodius, Catalina, and, most menacingly, Caesar; and, at the heart of it all, the complex personality o