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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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Fatherland

4.02 avg rating — 51,204 ratings — published 1992 — 166 editions
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Conclave

4.05 avg rating — 47,132 ratings — published 2016 — 101 editions
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Pompeii

3.87 avg rating — 49,182 ratings — published 2003 — 192 editions
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Imperium (Cicero, #1)

4.13 avg rating — 37,448 ratings — published 2006 — 133 editions
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An Officer and a Spy

4.22 avg rating — 30,711 ratings — published 2013 — 102 editions
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Munich

3.87 avg rating — 26,702 ratings — published 2017 — 87 editions
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Conspirata (Cicero, #2)

4.25 avg rating — 19,749 ratings — published 2009 — 125 editions
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Act of Oblivion

4.06 avg rating — 17,926 ratings — published 2022 — 35 editions
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The Ghost

3.81 avg rating — 18,995 ratings — published 2007 — 136 editions
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Dictator (Cicero, #3)

4.40 avg rating — 16,134 ratings — published 2015 — 27 editions
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“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

“To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.”
Robert Harris, Pompeii

“Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.”
Robert Harris, The Ghost

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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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