Author of Agrippa
Robert Harris, internationally bestselling author of Conclave, discusses Agrippa, his sweeping new political thriller about the general who built an empire—and paid the ultimate price. Agrippa is Harris’s monumental return to the world of ancient Rome on the edge of dictatorship, a novel for our times.
In the turbulent aftermath of Julius Caesar’s assassination, two young men seize the chance to shape the future of Rome: Octavius, Caesar’s cunning heir, and his brilliant common-born ally, Marcus Agrippa. Together, they fight for control of the empire, navigate shifting loyalties, vanquish their enemies at Philippi, and crush the fabled lovers Mark Antony and Cleopatra at Actium, securing a new empire that will change the world.
Sweeping from the blood-soaked battlefields of the Republic to the marble corridors of imperial power, Agrippa is a masterful novel of ambition and statecraft, loyalty and betrayal, and how even the greatest empires are built on fragile bonds between men.
A Different Drummer Books will be on-site with books for sale and signing after the talk.
Presented in collaboration with Random House Canada and A Different Drummer Books
Robert Harris is the author of sixteen widely acclaimed and bestselling novels, including The Cicero Trilogy, which won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and other literary awards. Several of his books have been adapted into films. His work has been translated into forty languages, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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