Dictator
- Published
- 8 October 2015
- Pages
- 417
- ISBN-13
- 9781410488565
- Type
- novel
About this book
Dictator closes the trilogy in 2015 at 417 pages, arriving six years after Lustrum to trace Cicero's slow fall from power under Julius Caesar and the triumvirs.
Key facts about Dictator
Robert Harris wrote Dictator, a novel on our list. It has been out since 8 October 2015. The book has 417 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781410488565 to find the main one.
Dictator is book 3 of 3 in the Cicero Trilogy series. The series has 3 published books. However, the series starts with Imperium (2006). It is also the latest book in the series with a full release date.
That series sits on our historical fiction shelf. Meanwhile, Agrippa is the latest published Robert Harris book on file, from 27 August 2026.
About Robert Harris
Robert Harris is a British author and former journalist and BBC television reporter who turned to fiction with Fatherland (1992), an alternate-history thriller imagining a world in which Nazi Germany won the Second World War, which became an international bestseller and established the meticulously researched, politically literate style that has defined his career since. See every Robert Harris book in order.
Its place in Cicero Trilogy
Dictator is book 3 in the Cicero Trilogy series. It follows Lustrum. See the full Cicero Trilogy reading order.
Narrated throughout by Tiro, Cicero's real-life slave and secretary (and the historical inventor of an early Latin shorthand system), the Cicero Trilogy dramatizes the Roman statesman's entire public career: his rise from provincial outsider to Consul of Rome in Imperium, his consulship and the Catiline conspiracy in Lustrum, and his slow fall from power under Julius Caesar and the triumvirs that follow in Dictator. Harris treats Cicero's political maneuvering -- alliances, bribery, courtroom rhetoric, backroom…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781410488565