Lustrum – 9780099406327

**PRE-ORDER AGRIPPA NOW: THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS, COMING AUGUST 2026**’A pure thriller . . .

wry, clever, thoughtful’ OBSERVER’No one delivers thrilling yet timeless games of power, sex, fame and Rome like Robert Harris’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPHRome, 63 BC. Seven men are struggling for power: Cicero the consul, Caesar his ruthless rival, Pompey the republic’s greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath and Clodius an ambitious playboy. These real historical figures – their alliances and betrayals, their cruelties and seductions – are all interleaved in Lustrum, through its narrator Tiro, a confidential secretary to Cicero.

He knows all his master’s secrets – a dangerous position to be in. ‘Thoroughly engaging . .

. The allure of power and the perils that attend it have seldom been so brilliantly anatomised in a thriller’ Sunday Times