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Format: Paperback
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Author:
Robert Harris
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099527947
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EAN: 9780099527947
Published: 1 Oct 2009
A sweltering week in late August. Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? But even as Rome's richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous warnings that something is going wrong. Wells and springs are failing, a man has disappeared, and now the greatest aqueduct in the world - the mighty Aqua Augusta - has suddenly ceased to flow. Through the eyes of four characters - a young engineer, an adolescent girl, a corrupt millionaire and an elderly scientist - Robert Harris brilliantly recreates a luxurious world on the brink of destruction.
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Blazingly exciting... Harris, as Vesuvius explodes, gives full vent to his genius for thrilling narrative... pulse-rate-speeding masterpieces of suffocating suspense and searing action
- Sunday Times
Robert Harris's Pompeii is his best yet: as explosive as Etna, as addictive as a thriller, as satisfying as great history - Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Books of the Year'
- Daily Telegraph
Breakneck pace, constant jeopardy and subtle twists of plot... a blazing blockbuster
- Daily Mail
Harris has done a tremendous job in evoking life in ancient Italy... I am lost in admiration at his energy and skill
- Mail on Sunday
The long drawn-out death agony of the two cities is brilliantly done. Explosive stuff indeed
- Daily Telegraph
Gripping, topical and dauntingly intelligent
- Sunday Times
A stunning novel... The subtlety and power of its construction holds our attention to the end
- The Times
A whole community, buried in volcanic ash 2000 years ago, has been brought to life... Stirring and absorbing
- Sunday Telegraph
A supremely good piece of storytelling, most impressively researched
- The Guardian
Britain’s leading thriller writer … Explosive stuff, indeed – and yes, it goes with a bang
- Daily Telegraph
The depth of the research in the book is staggering … Pompeii is indeed a blazing blockbuster
- Daily Mail
The final 100 pages are terrific, as good as anything Harris has done ... Stirring and absorbing
- Sunday Telegraph
Pompeii by Robert Harris was another triumph … put together with the skill of a craftsman
- Sunday Telegraph
Robert Harris is one of Britain’s most famous writers of thriller novels and gripping historical fiction. He is the author of eight bestselling historical and contemporary thrillers: Archangel, Enigma, Fatherland, The Fear Index, The Ghost, Imperium, Lustrum and Pompeii, all of which were worldwide bestsellers.
Harris has been shortlisted for three notable literary awards: the Walter Scott prize for historical fiction, the Whitbread first novel award (now known as the Costa Book award) and the British Book Awards Popular Fiction Award. His most recent bestselling thriller, The Fear Index, was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, for best thriller of the year, at the 2012 Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards.
Robert Harris has worked with international film director Roman Polanski to create the Golden Globe winning film The Ghost Writer, starring Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor. Enigma was adapted into an award-winning film starring Kate Winslet and Tom Hollander.
His work has been translated into thirty-three languages. He was born in Nottingham in 1957 and is a graduate of Cambridge University. He worked as a reporter on the BBC's Newsnight and Panorama programmes, before becoming Political Editor of the Observer in 1987, and then a columnist on the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph. In 2003 he was named Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards. He lives near Hungerford in Berkshire with his wife and their four children.
