N. Lamberti Livres

'One of the great triumphs of contemporary historical literature.' The TimesWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'Laws are silent in times of war.' CiceroOne of the great epics of political and historical fiction, The Cicero Trilogy charts the career of the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero from his mid-twenties as an ambitious young lawyer to his dramatic death more than thirty years later, pursued by an assassination squad on a cliff-top path.The extraordinary life that unfolds between these two episodes is recounted by Cicero's private secretary, the law cases and the speeches that made his master's name; the elections and conspiracies he fought; the rivals who contended for power around him - Pompey, Crassus, Cato, Clodius, Catalina, and, most menacingly, Caesar; and, at the heart of it all, the complex personality of Cicero himself - brilliant, cunning, duplicitous, anxious, brave, and always intensely humane.More than ten years in the writing, and now published in a single volume for the first time, The Cicero Trilogy brings the world of the Roman republic vividly to life. Here is its grandeur, ambition and corruption; and here is its tumultuous collapse into dictatorship and anarchy - a story of the fragility of democratic institutions that holds a warning for our own time.

1961. Les Allemands de l'Est ferment l'accès à Berlin-Ouest. La tension entre États-Unis et Union soviétique s'exacerbe. Le monde se scinde en deux blocs. Confrontées à toutes les tragédies de la fin du xxe siècle, plusieurs familles - polonaise, russe, allemande, américaine et anglaise - sont emportées dans le tumulte de ces immenses troubles sociaux, politiques et économiques. Chacun de leurs membres devra se battre et participera, à sa manière, à la formidable révolution en marche. Tout à la fois saga historique, roman d'espionnage, histoire d'amour et thriller politique, Aux portes de l'éternité clôt la fresque magistrale de la trilogie du Siècle, après La Chute des géants et L'Hiver du monde. Ken Follett obéit autant à la véracité historique qu'aux lois du suspense romanesque. Impressionnant. Macha Séry, Le Monde des livres. Un récit haletant, dense et complexe. Un pavé qui se lit d'une traite. Nina Sorel, Historia.