Rick Pucci's Reviews > Lustrum

Bravo!
Robert Harris' Lustrum is another of his masterpieces. Historical fiction at its absolute Zenith.

Marcus Cicero, the greatest orator lived such an extraordinary life. Competing with powerful men such as Julius Caesar, Pompey The great or rich diabolical men like Crassus, the devil reincarnates themselves such as Catalina or Clodius or the beautiful, cunning women like Clodia, who will poison the most powerful men with a smile, Cicero remains one step ahead (though not always), by using his one power: Words.

And civilization is so lucky that this man so full of with and intelligence was followed everywhere by Tiro, the super-slave and the father of shorthand, who wrote it all down. ( Although the savage Huns destroyed most of his writings).
Tiro gave us the abbreviations such as "etc., e.g., i.e., and the ampersand &" and a style we use to this day.

Such an escape reading this because you are completely enveloped inside the political world of Rome during Rome's most amazing Lustrum (5 years) starting in 63 BC.

Thank God a third book awaits in this trilogy which I am off to now.

Carpe Diem!!!