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Pompeii

AuthorRobert Harris

NarratorSteven Pacey

Duration10h 25m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Historical Novels

PublishersChivers, Random House

VersionUnabridged

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Where else to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? All along the coast, the Roman Empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchor. Only one man is worried. The engineer Marcus Attilius 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. Springs are failing. 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... CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES.

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