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"Finishing this splendid and intelligent story, as with all great fiction, brings an acute sense of loss." - Richard Susskind * The Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR * "A real page-turner, with a great twist in the final pages." - Libby Purves * The Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR *

His latest, Conclave, is superb." - Ben Macintyre * The Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR * "`I have been waiting for most of my life for Robert Harris to write a novel that is not gripping, insightful and entertaining. with a plot so serpentine and sinuous that I could not bear to put it down." - Geoffrey Wansell * Daily Mail BOOKS OF THE YEAR * "Harris' superlative skill at depicting power politics makes this an irresistibly gripping papal page-turner." * Sunday Times, BOOKS OF THE YEAR * more than a crime novel, it is also a psychological and political thriller. "A master of producing thrillers of ever-tightening suspense, full of insider analysis of political power and the treatment of momentous events. Nonetheless, there is only one possible word to describe Robert Harris's new novel, and it is this: unputdownable" - Ian Sansom * Guardian *

During my 25-odd years of writing about books I have done my best to avoid cliches, slipshod summaries, oracular pronouncements and indeed anything else that might appear emblazoned on a book jacket. "I am about to use a word I have never knowingly used in any review of any book ever. narrative doesn't come better than this." * Scotsman BOOKS OF THE YEAR * it's dramatically compelling, politically intelligent, beautifully paced and with a lovely twist in the tail. "Robert Harris is the master storyteller of our time.

"Each Robert Harris thriller is different but of exemplary consistency." - Ian Rankin * Mirror BOOKS OF THE YEAR * "Robert Harris is incapable of writing a substandard novel." - Alan Johnson * Observer, BOOKS OF THE YEAR *