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Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome
by Robert Harris
Imperium is a novel based on the Roman Senator Cicero. The narrator voice in the book is Cicero's aid and slave Tulio. The events in the book actually happened though the dialog is the authors imagination. Cicero really had a slave named Tulio who was his assistant and who kept a written account of many of the events of the time. Those writings have been lost but there are plenty of other records that have informed historians, the author has used these resources in this book. This book could not be called a thriller or a mystery. However the conflicts in the Senate and the politics of the late Roman Republic make an exciting story.