About the Author
Robert Harris is the author of 15 bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy – Imperium (2006), Lustrum (2009), and Dictator (2015) – Fatherland (1992, Folio 2024), Enigma (1995), Archangel (1998), Pompeii (2003, Folio 2025), The Ghost (2007), The Fear Index (2011), An Officer and a Spy (2013), which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave (2016), Munich (2017), The Second Sleep (2019), V2 (2020), and Act of Oblivion (2022). His work has been translated into 40 languages, and nine of his books have been adapted for cinema and television. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.