Robert Harris

"September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain's private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German...

"Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of twenty-thousand. Among the witnesses to...

"1660 England. General Edward Whalley and his son-in law Colonel William Goffe board a ship bound for the New World. They are on the run, wanted for the murder of King Charles I--a brazen execution that marked the culmination of the English Civil War, in which parliamentarians successfully battled royalists for control. But now, ten years after Charles' beheading, the royalists have returned to power. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, the...

When the aqueduct that brings fresh water to thousands of people around the bay of Naples fails, Roman engineer Marius Primus heads to the slopes of Mount Vesuvius to investigate, only to come face to face with an impending catastrophe.

From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Pompeii, comes the first novel of a trilogy about the struggle for power in ancient Rome.
In his "most accomplished work to date" (Los Angeles Times), master of historical fiction Robert Harris lures readers back in time to the compelling life of Roman Senator Marcus Cicero. The re-creation of a vanished biography written by his household slave and righthand man, Tiro, Imperium...

HO, HO, HO, SANTA CLAWS IS COMING TO TOWN… On Christmas Day in 2010, Santa Claws descended upon the city of Boston and gave a debut performance that shocked not only the city, but the rest of the country as well. He visited three separate households during said festive day and calmly slaughtered every family member who crossed his path, before disappearing into the silent night, never to be heard from again. FAST FORWARD TO THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS...

THREE ARE SELECTED, BUT ONLY ONE IS CHOSEN…An exceptional and elusive hunter has been operating for many, many years within the ever-shifting, creeping shadows of Chicago, and largely unimpeded by the local authorities or any sense of a conscience, but now a talented Homicide Detective is about to shine a light into his dark and twisted world.Sonia Vasquez is young, driven, smart, headstrong, and has amazing intuition when it comes to the criminal...

I have always been a fan of history, especially military history. However, I have found that the military history of African Americans in the defense of America has had very little written about it, and in some cases, their deeds and accomplishment were completely omitted. This book is a brief look at some of their accomplishments. Americans of every race should remember and take pride in the courage of Crispus Attucks at the Boston Massacre, the...

Certains souvenirs feraient mieux de rester enfouis à jamais… Engagé pour écrire les mémoires d'Adam Lang, ex-premier ministre britannique à la carrière aussi longue que controversée, un prête-plume se retrouve rapidement confronté à une tâche bien plus périlleuse qu'il ne s'en doutait. Au manoir isolé et ultra-sécurisé d'Adam Lang et sa femme Ruth, il s'aperçoit que son prédécesseur, McAra, décédé quelques jours plus tt, accusait...

Par l'auteur de « Conclave ». Rome, 58 avant J.-C. Cicéron avait touché le sommet du pouvoir, mais César a eu raison de lui. Le plus grand orateur de son temps est désormais contraint à l'exil, loin des sept collines de Rome. Cependant Cicéron n'a pas dit son dernier mot. Il sait qu'il existe un moyen de retrouver ses terres natales. Hélas, sa patrie n'est plus aussi paisible qu'à l'époque… Cicéron pressent que le glas de la République...