# Lustrum

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- Book: [Lustrum](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-a-harris/lustrum) ([Lustrum.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-a-harris/lustrum.md))
- Authors: [Robert A. Harris](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-a-harris)
- Publisher: cornerstone_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 15 h 36 min
- Narrated by: Bill Wallis
- ISBN: 978-14-7351-742-4
- Published: 2014-11-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 15 h 36 min

## Description

Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power. Cicero is consul, Caesar his 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 stories of these real historical figures - their alliances and betrayals, their cruelties and seductions, their brilliance and their crimes - are all interleaved to form this epic novel. Its narrator is Tiro, a slave who serves as confidential secretary to the wily, humane, complex Cicero. He knows all his master's secrets - a dangerous position to be in. From the discovery of a child's mutilated body, through judicial execution and a scandalous trial, to the brutal unleashing of the Roman mob, Lustrum is a study in the timeless enticements and horrors of power.