Author: Robert Harris
Translator: A-ram Park
Publisher: Random House Korea
Hardcover | 464 pages | 230*158mm
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About This Book
All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richest citizens
are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of
summer. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum.
The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae,
Herculaneum, and Pompeii.
But the carefree lifestyle and gorgeous weather belie an impending
cataclysm, and only one man is worried. The young engineer Marcus
Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous
aqueduct that brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in
nine towns around the Bay of Naples. His predecessor has disappeared.
Springs are failing for the first time in generations. And now there is
a crisis on the Augusta's sixty-mile main line - somewhere to the north
of Pompeii, on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.
Attilius - decent, practical, and incorruptible - promises Pliny, the
famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repair the aqueduct
before the reservoir runs dry. His plan is to travel to Pompeii and put
together an expedition, then head out to the place where he believes the
fault lies. But Pompeii proves to be a corrupt and violent town, and
Attilius soon discovers that there are powerful forces at work - both
natural and man-made - threatening to destroy him.
With his trademark elegance and intelligence, Robert Harris, bestselling
author of Archangel and Fatherland, re-creates a world on the brink of
disaster.
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