Conspirata
By: Robert Harris.
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780743266109; 9781416595526; 9781416545767
Subjects: Tiro, M. Tullius -- b. 103  or 4 B.C. -- Fiction; Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Fiction; Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C. -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: On the eve of Marcus Cicero's inauguration as consul of Rome, the grisly death of a boy sends ripples of fear thourgh a city already wracked by civil unrest, crime, and debauchery of every kind. For Cicero, the ill forebodings of this hideous murder only increase his frustrations and the dangers he already faces as Rome's leader: elected by the people but despised by the heads of the two rival camps, the patricians and populists. There is, also a plot to assassinate him, and it will take all his embattled wit, strength, and force of will to stop it and keep Rome from becoming a dictatorship.