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Pompeii by Robert Harris
4.0

Exploding volcano, ancient city, seedy sex and corrupt governments-one can be forgiven for thinking that such a combustible mix cannot spawn any novel offering something new. But Harris says 'hold my cup, I offer you 'Pompeii.''

We have an unlikely protagonist, a water, engineer, a contumacious daughter who falls in love with the protagonist and a corrupt riches-to-rags father and assassins.

What 'Pompeii' has going for it is a edge-of-the-seat novel. Otherwise its stale wine new bottle.