Reviews
Acclaim for Robert Harris'sPompeii, the #1 international bestseller "Blazingly exciting...Pompeiipalpitates 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 unputdownable...is the bravura �ctional 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, Harris, as Vesuvius explodes, gives full vent to his genius for thrilling narrative. Fast-paced twists and turns alternate with nightmarish slow-motion scenes (desperate �gures struggling to wade thigh-deep through slurries of pumice towards what they hope will be safety). Harris's unleashing of the furnace ferocities of the eruption's terminal phase turns his book's closing sequences into pulse-rate-speeding masterpieces of suffocating suspense and searing action. It is hard to imagine a more thoroughgoingly enjoyable thriller." -London Sunday Times "Breakneck pace, constant jeopardy and subtle twists of plot...a blazing blockbuster... The depth of the research in the book is staggering." -Daily Mail "[A] stirring and absorbing novel...The �nal 100 pages are terri�c, as good as anything Harris has do≠and the last, teasing paragraph, done with the lightest of touches, is masterly." -The Sunday Telegraph "The long-drawn-out death agony of [Pompeii and Herculaneum]-a full day of falling ash, pumice stone, and then, the �nal catastrophe, a cloud of poisonous gas-is brilliantly done. Explosive stuff, indeed." -The Daily Telegraph From the Hardcover edition., Acclaim for Robert Harris's Pompeii , the #1 international bestseller "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 unputdownable...is the bravura �ctional 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, Harris, as Vesuvius explodes, gives full vent to his genius for thrilling narrative. Fast-paced twists and turns alternate with nightmarish slow-motion scenes (desperate �gures struggling to wade thigh-deep through slurries of pumice towards what they hope will be safety). Harris's unleashing of the furnace ferocities of the eruption's terminal phase turns his book's closing sequences into pulse-rate-speeding masterpieces of suffocating suspense and searing action. It is hard to imagine a more thoroughgoingly enjoyable thriller." - London Sunday Times "Breakneck pace, constant jeopardy and subtle twists of plot...a blazing blockbuster... The depth of the research in the book is staggering." - Daily Mail "[A] stirring and absorbing novel...The �nal 100 pages are terri�c, as good as anything Harris has do≠and the last, teasing paragraph, done with the lightest of touches, is masterly." - The Sunday Telegraph "The long-drawn-out death agony of [Pompeii and Herculaneum]-a full day of falling ash, pumice stone, and then, the �nal catastrophe, a cloud of poisonous gas-is brilliantly done. Explosive stuff, indeed." - The Daily Telegraph From the Hardcover edition.