Robert Harris charts the career of the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero from his mid-twenties as an ambitious young lawyer to his dramatic death more than thirty years later, pursued by an assassination squad on a cliff-top path.
The life that unfolds between these two episodes is recounted by Cicero’s private secretary, Tiro: the law cases and the speeches that made his master’s name; the elections and conspiracies he fought; the rivals who contended for power around him; and, at the heart of it all, the complex personality of Cicero himself. Published in a single volume for the first time, The Cicero Trilogy brings the world of the Roman republic to life.