{"product_id":"imperium","title":"Imperium","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events that will eventually propel his master into one of the most suspenseful courtroom dramas in history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. The senator is Marcus Cicero -- an ambitious young lawyer and spellbinding orator, who at the age of twenty-seven is determined to attain imperium -- supreme power in the state. Of all the great figures of the Roman world, none was more fascinating or charismatic than Cicero. And Tiro -- the inventor of shorthand and author of numerous books, including a celebrated biography of his master (which was lost in the Dark Ages) -- was always by his side.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompellingly written in Tiro's voice, Imperium is the re-creation of his vanished masterpiece, recounting in vivid detail the story of Cicero's quest for glory, competing with some of the most powerful and intimidating figures of his -- or any other -- Pompey, Caesar, Crassus, and the many other powerful Romans who changed history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Harris, the world's master of innovative historical fiction, lures us into a violent, treacherous world of Roman politics at once exotically different from and yet startlingly similar to our own -- a world of Senate intrigue and electoral corruption, special prosecutors and political adventurism -- to describe how one clever, compassionate, devious, vulnerable man fought to reach the top.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Harris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45950967709865,"sku":"9780091801250","price":5.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9780091801250.jpg?v=1750049899","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/imperium","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}