Robert Etienne

An expert on Pompeii uses photographs, reconstructed city plans, mosaics, and drawings to provide a vivid portrait of life in this Roman city

The Day a City Died

Pompeii

Robert Harris

A Novel

Little known fact about me… I am mildly obsessed with Pompeii. 

Did the audiobook too because it was Steve Pacy. Everything i like in one place. My review it skewed deeply by personal bias. I loved it with my whole nerd heart. Please historical fiction authors… more Pompeii POV books!

Apiecalypse Jen

Little known fact about me… I am mildly obsessed with Pompeii. 

Did the audiobook too because it was Steve Pacy. Everything i like in one place. My review it skewed deeply by personal bias. I loved it with my whole nerd heart. Please historical fiction authors… more Pompeii POV books!

A number one bestselling Roman thriller from the award-winning master of the literary and historical thriller genre: Robert Harris. A thrilling depiction of one of the most famous natural disasters in human history: the explosion of Mount Vesuvius. A sweltering week in late August. Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? But even as Rome's richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous warnings that something is going wrong. Wells and springs are failing, a man has disappeared, and now the greatest aqueduct in the world - the mighty Aqua Augusta - has suddenly ceased to flow. Through the eyes of four characters - a young engineer, an adolescent girl, a corrupt millionaire and an elderly scientist - Robert Harris brilliantly recreates a luxurious world on the brink of destruction.

Pompeii The Day a City Died

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