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Book Review of Pompeii

Pompeii
Pompeii
Author: Robert Harris
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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"Blazingly exciting...Pompeii palpitates with sultry tension...Harris provides an awe-inspiring tour of one of the monumental engineering triumphs on which the Roman empire was based...What makes this novel all but unpotdownable...is the bravura fictional flair that crackles through it. Brilliantly evoking the doomed society pursuing its ambitions and schemes in the shadow of a mountain that nobody knew was a volcano......" London Sunday Times