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Imperium...Conspirata...and now Dictator - the long-awaited final level of Robert Harris' superb Ancient Rome trilogy At age 48, Cicero - the greatest orator of his time - is exile, separated from his partner and children, tormented by his sense of inability, his great electric power sacrificed on the altar of his ideas. Yet, in what of one of his most famous aphorisms, "Since there is life, there exists hope." By promising to aid Caesar - his politics enemy - he is granted return to Rome. There, he fights his way back to prominence: first in regulations courts then in the Senate and lastly by the power of his pen, until at last, for one simple and glorious period, he is again the preeminent statesman in the town. However, no public number, however outstanding and cunning, is totally safeguarded against the unscrupulous ambition and problem of others. Riveting and tumultuous, Dictator encompasses some of the most epic situations in ancient history - the collapse of the Roman Republic and the next civil warfare, the murder of Pompey, and the assassination of Julius Caesar. But the central problem it presents is a classic one: how to keep politics freedom unsullied by personal ambition, vested interests, and the erosive ramifications of ceaseless, senseless overseas wars. In Robert Harris' indelible family portrait, Cicero tries to answer this question with both his thoughts and his deeds, becoming a hero - outstanding, flawed, frequently fearful, yet eventually courageous - both for his own time and for ours.
