Pompeii
From the bestselling author of Conclave
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4.2 • 192 Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
**ROBERT HARRIS RETURNS TO ANCIENT ROME IN AGRIPPA -- OUT NOW**
A CORRUPT WORLD ON THE BRINK OF A TERRIFYING DISASTER.
'A pulse-rate-speeding masterpiece' SUNDAY TIMES
'A stunning novel . . . holds your attention to the end' THE TIMES
During a sweltering week in late August, 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.
'As explosive as Etna, as addictive as a thriller, as satisfying as great history' DAILY TELEGRAPH
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Customer Reviews
I do miss Frankie Howerd
This is a relentlessly didactic book wearing the burden of the writer’s research like a winter overcoat. The hero is a prig and of the cast of characters, some imaginary others real, only Pliny comes alive, perhaps because he left behind a body of work for the writer to mine. I usually put Robert Harris’s books in the category “worth reading again” but not this one.
Pompeii
Started well but it all went downhill after the introduction of the love interest. It was a flawed contrivance with a finale that was just embarrassing