Agrippa is no page-turner. But like its subject, it is steady, stoic and steadfast enough that one is tempted to grant Harris ...

Gaius Octavius was born in 63 B.C. in Rome. When his maternal great uncle, Julius Caesar, was assassinated for subverting the Roman Republic, the young Octavian, only 18 at the time, became his heir.

This fictional memoir by Octavius’s right-hand man shows us bloodshed, betrayal and hectic jockeying for power ...

Robert Harris’s novel recounts the fall of the Roman Republic through the eyes of the general who helped make it happen.

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