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Robert Harris

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ROBERT HARRIS is the author of nine best-selling novels: Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Imperium, The Ghost Writer, Conspirata, The Fear Index, and An Officer and a Spy. Several of his books have been adapted to film, most recently The Ghost Writer, directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. He lives in the village of Kintbury, England, with his wife, Gill Hornby.

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Robert Harris Aristotle said that the truest guide to a man’s character is his actions, and I suppose that is the basis for my characterization. I look at what thes…moreAristotle said that the truest guide to a man’s character is his actions, and I suppose that is the basis for my characterization. I look at what these men did, and then try to work backwards, imagining what it was in their personalities that led them to behave as they did. I also work on the basis that 2,000 years is the blink of an eye in terms of the scale of evolution, and they weren’t that dissimilar to us.(less)
Robert Harris A strange choice, I know, but I would have loved to have been at the final dinner that Cicero gave for Julius Caesar in December 45 BC, three months b…moreA strange choice, I know, but I would have loved to have been at the final dinner that Cicero gave for Julius Caesar in December 45 BC, three months before Caesar’s assassination. It is described in Dictator. Caesar turned up with a bodyguard of 1,000 men, and afterwards Cicero wrote to Atticus that although it had been an enjoyable occasion “he is not the kind of man to whom one says, ‘do drop by the next time you are in the neighbourhood.’”(less)
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Conclave

4.12 avg rating — 77,568 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions
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Fatherland

4.02 avg rating — 55,970 ratings — published 1992 — 148 editions
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Pompeii

3.88 avg rating — 53,326 ratings — published 2003 — 198 editions
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Imperium (Cicero, #1)

4.14 avg rating — 40,840 ratings — published 2006 — 32 editions
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An Officer and a Spy

4.22 avg rating — 33,200 ratings — published 2013 — 107 editions
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Munich

3.88 avg rating — 29,052 ratings — published 2017 — 96 editions
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Conspirata (Cicero, #2)

4.26 avg rating — 21,674 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
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Act of Oblivion

4.06 avg rating — 20,711 ratings — published 2022 — 43 editions
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Dictator (Cicero, #3)

4.41 avg rating — 17,905 ratings — published 2015 — 85 editions
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The Ghost

3.82 avg rating — 20,454 ratings — published 2007
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“To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.”
Robert Harris, Pompeii

“To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.”
Robert Harris, The Ghost

“My brothers and sisters, in the course of a long life in the service of our Mother the Church, let me tell you that the one sin I have come to fear more than any other is certainty. Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance. Even Christ was not certain at the end. 'Eli Eli, lama sabachtani?' He cried out in His agony at the ninth hour on the cross. 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand in hand with doubt. If there was only certainty, and if there was no doubt, there would be no mystery, and therefore no need for faith.”
Robert Harris, Conclave

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December 2018 Runners-Up General Poll

The books that make up this poll are the Runners-Up (second place*) from the 2018 Subgenre Polls.

*Exceptions as follows:
- The January/February selection is the 4th place runner-up since at the time the top three books were read as Group Reads.
- The April selection is the 5th place runner-up since the top three books were read as Group Reads in August and the 4th place runner-up was the winner of the July Subgenre Poll.
- The September selection is the 4th place runner-up since the third place runner-up was also the third place runner-up in November and being used as the November selection.
- The October selection is the 4th place runner-up as we selected the top three books to read with no Subgenre selection.

We ask that you only vote if you are planning on participating in our discussion should your choice win.

Which Crime, Mystery, or Thriller book would you like to read in December?

Dead Simple (Roy Grace, #1) (November) by Peter James
 
  9 votes, 17.3%

 
  8 votes, 15.4%

A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1) (June) by Ngaio Marsh
 
  7 votes, 13.5%

The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell, #1) (August) by Laurie R. King
 
  7 votes, 13.5%

 
  6 votes, 11.5%

Night School (Roy Grace #1) (November) by Lee Child
 
  5 votes, 9.6%

 
  4 votes, 7.7%

 
  4 votes, 7.7%

The Third Victim (Quincy & Rainie, #2) (May) by Lisa Gardner
 
  2 votes, 3.8%

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