Robert Harris

Pompeji, 79 n. Chr., reichste Stadt der römischen Weltmacht, Oase der Schönen und Mächtigen: Der junge Wasserbaumeister Attilius kommt einer skrupellosen Verschwörung auf die Spur, doch seine Nachforschungen werden überschattet von den unheimlichen Vorzeichen einer drohenden Apokalypse.

No city in England can match Gloucester’s passion for the game of rugby. The streets are festooned in cherry and white on match days and that famous cry of ‘Glaw . . . sterrr’ can be heard far beyond the club’s Kingsholm ground. This book illustrates what makes Gloucester Rugby Club so special. It features revealing and humorous interviews with some of the greats (including, to name but a few, Mike Teague, Andy Deacon and Ian Smith), historical facts, trivia, stats and stories, told by those who pulled on that famous shirt. It recalls the great matches, the cup wins, the highs, and also some of the lows. This is a book that shows what it means to play for Gloucester, a club steeped in tradition, pride and sporting excellence.

High tech finance and sophisticated computer programming combine in this terrifying and fiendishly smart new novel from Robert Harris, the bestselling author of Conclave. Dr. Alex Hoffmann stays out of the public spotlight, but within the secretive inner circles of the ultra-rich he is a legend. And now he has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. As a result, his Geneva-based hedge fund is poised to make billions. But one morning before dawn, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside mansion. So begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence as Hoffmann attempts, with increasing desperation, to discover who is trying to destroy him. The Fear Index gives us a searing glimpse into an all-too-recognizable world of greed and panic. It is a novel that forces us to confront the question of what it means to be human--and it is Robert Harris's most spellbinding and audacious novel to date.

So begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence as Hoffmann attempts - with increasing desperation - to discover who is trying to destroy him - before it's too late ...

En intens nåtidsthriller fra Robert Harris lagt til den nådeløse finansverdenen.Dr. Alex Hoffman er en legende. Han er fysiker og tidligere ansatt ved verdens største partikkelakselerator ved forskningsinstituttet CERN. Nå bruker han et revolusjonerende og svært hemmelig system av algoritmer til å handle på verdens finansmarked. Ingen av hans rivaler forstår hvordan han får det til, men basert på «fryktindeksen» lykkes Hoffmans i å generere utrolige utbytter for sine investorer.Men sent en kveld, i huset sitt ved Genève-sjøen, oppdager Hoffman en inntrenger i huset. Han har hørt noe og lar sin kone ligge sovende igjen i sengen, mens han selv lister seg ned for å undersøke. Alarmen i det store huset er slått av og når han går ut døren, ser han et par store, svarte støvler pent stilt opp ved inngangen.I løpet av de neste 48 timene, mens verdensmarkedet er i ferd med å gå mot en ny kollaps, faller også Hoffmans verden fra hverandre. Fanget i en spiral av vold og paranoia må han finne svaret på et spørsmål: Hvem er det som forsøker å ødelegge ham?

Conspirata is "a portrait of ancient politics as a blood sport," raves The New York Times. As he did with Imperium, Robert Harris again turns Roman history into a gripping thriller as Cicero faces a new power struggle in a world filled with treachery, violence, and vengeance.On the eve of Cicero's inauguration as consul of Rome, a grisly discovery sends fear rippling through a city already racked by unrest. A young slave boy has been felled by a hammer, his throat slit and his organs removed, apparently as a human sacrifice. For Cicero, the ill omens of this hideous murder only increase his dangerous situation: elected leader by the people but despised by the heads of the two rival political camps. Caught in a shell game that leaves him forever putting out fires only to have them ignite elsewhere, Cicero plays for the future of the republic...and his life. There is a plot to assassinate him, abetted by a rising young star of the Roman senate named Gaius Julius Caesar--and it will take all the embattled consul's wit, strength, and force of will to stop the plot and keep Rome from becoming a dictatorship.

It was Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power - Cicero is consul; Caesar, his ruthless young rival; Pompey, the republic's greatest general; Crassus, its richest man; Cato, a political fanatic; Catilina, a psychopath; and, Clodius, an ambitious playboy.

Hovedpersonen i Robert Harris' siste bok er en profesjonell ghosthwriter - en skyggeskribent som lever av andres livshistorier. Han er vant til å jobbe med b-kjendiser og aldrende rockestjerner. Så får han muligheten til å skrive memoarene til Storbritannias nylig avgåtte statsminister. Han griper sjansen, men det tar ikke lang tid før han innser at han har gjort en fatal feilvurdering.Hans forgjenger på prosjektet døde under svært mistenkelige omstendigheter. Den sjarmerende eks-statsministeren viser seg å ha en skyggeside.

Pompeii har siden boka kom ut ligget trygt plassert på engelske bestselgerlister. I Harris’ historiske thriller spiller naturkreftene den viktigste rollen og forfatteren skaper en sjeldent fortettet stemning frem mot den uunngåelige katastrofen.Vi følger ingeniøren Marcus Attilius som blir sendt til Campania for å få orden på vannforsyningene. Attililus forgjenger har forsvunnet sporløst og nå må den unge ingeniøren alene sørge for at området ikke blir tørrlagt.

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.

***OUT NOW, PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS***'Top-class' The TimesMarch 1943, the war hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park Tom Jericho, a brilliant young codebreaker, is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, Jericho's girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious Claire Romilly, suddenly disappears.'A compulsive page turner' Daily Mail'As human, intelligent and gripping as documentary fiction can get' Financial TimesRobert Harris, Sunday Times bestselling author, May 2024

When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres.

***OUT NOW, PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS***'With Archangel, Robert Harris confirms his position as Britain's pre-eminent literary thriller writer' The Times'He has a talent for heart-poundingly tense story-telling, and an ability to conjure up atmospheres almost palpable with menace' Sunday TimesWhen historian Fluke Kelso learns of the existence of a secret notebook belonging to Josef Stalin he is determined to track it down, whatever the consequences. From the violent political intrigue and decadence of modern Moscow he heads north - to the vast forests surrounding the White Sea port of Archangel, and a terrifying encounter with Russia's unburied past.

Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. And, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth - a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.

Tyskerne beskytter sin topphemmelige kode, Enigma, med frenetisk energi. De allierte gjør visse fremskritt i dechiffreringsarbeidet, men mister taket hver gang tyskerne endrer systemene. I mellomtiden utkjempes slaget om Atlanterhavet - i tyskernes favør.Tom Jericho kalles til Bletchley, en mørklagt filleby som rommer britenes kodeknekkersentral. Han får en uke på seg til å trenge gjennom gåtene og dermed ramme selve nervesystemet i tyskernes hemmelige tjenester. Men han får snart en krypende visshet om at Bletchley er infiltrert av flere gåter enn dem hans matematiske hjerne er satt til å løse.

Fluke Kelso, britisk Russlands-ekspert, er i Moskva på en konferanse. Kommunismen har falt, og tiden er inne for stadig mer forbløffende avsløringer om Stalin-regimets herjinger. Men Kelso kan knapt tro det den aldrende og temmelig alkoholiserte Rapu Rapavas røper: at Stalin skal ha etterlatt seg en hemmelig dagbok.Kelso konstaterer raskt at flere kjenner til papirene, og at samtlige har gode grunner for å beskytte seg selv - mot hverandre, og mot den britiske nysgjerrighet. Det bekrefter bare sakens brennbarhet at Rapu Rapava finnes myrdet. Kelso får tak i en bil og kjører til Arkhangelsk, tilskyndet av vage hint og forbløffende antydninger om at Stalin hadde avlet en sønn der nord i vinterlandet. En sensasjonslysten journalist tvinger seg med på reisen, men Vladimir Mamatov er brysom og farlig i helt annen grad, og han har sine aggressivt energiske hjelpere godt plassert i skogene ved Arkhangelsk.I Isnende kulde og dyp snø utløses historiens rasende klimaks, med en besatt eneboer som farligste motstander.

Hochbrisant, Topaktuell Der britische Ex-Premierminister Adam Lang will seine Memoiren veröffentlichen. Nach dem dubiosen Tod seines Ghostwriters recherchiert dessen Nachfolger genauer als verlangt und macht eine Entdeckung, die zu einem weltpolitischen Chaos führen kann. War der Premier im "Krieg gegen den Terror" eine Marionette der CIA? Niemand zuvor hat Großbritannien so lange regiert wie Premierminister Adam Lang. Nun ist er aus dem Amt geschieden, und alle Welt erwartet sehnsüchtig die Memoiren des charismatischen Machtmenschen. Sensationelle zehn Millionen Dollar Vorschuss hat ihm sein amerikanischer Verleger geboten. Unter zwei Bedingungen: Das Buch muss binnen zwei Jahren auf dem Markt sein, und der Ex-Premier soll in Sachen Krieg gegen den Terror kein Blatt vor den Mund nehmen. Ein halbes Jahr vor dem Termin passiert das Undenkbare: Am Ufer der US-amerikanischen Insel Marthas Vineyard, wohin sich Adam Lang zum Arbeiten an seinen Erinnerungen zurückgezogen hat, wird die Leiche seines Ghostwriters angeschwemmt. War es Mord? Schnell wird ein Ersatzmann gefunden, der auf eigene Faust noch genauer als sein Vorgänger in der Vergangenheit des Machtpolitikers recherchiert. Und dabei stößt er auf Dinge, die so brisant sind, dass deren Veröffentlichung zu einem weltpolitischen Chaos führen würde. "Eine furiose Abrechnung mit dem Politiker Blair." ZDF aspekte "Polemisch, spannend, pikant - ein Schlüsselroman über das Jahrzehnt, in dem Tony Blair Großbritannien regiert hat." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "Ja, so spannend kann Politik sein!" Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung über "Imperium"

The ghost soon discovers that his distinguished new client has secrets in his past that are returning to haunt him - secrets with the power to kill. Robert Harris is once again at his gripping best with the most controversial new thriller of the decade.