Thom reviewed Pompeii by Robert Harris
Review of 'Pompeii' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I enjoyed the mystery, and any book with Pliny as a character can't be half bad.
278 pages
English language
Published July 14, 2005 by Random House Trade Pbks..
4 stars
(1 review)
When the aqueduct that brings fresh water to thousands of people around the bay of Naples fails, Roman engineer Marius Primus heads to the slopes of Mount Vesuvius to investigate, only to come face to face with an impending catastrophe.
Subjects
- Water-supply -- Fiction.
- Aqueducts -- Fiction.
- Engineers -- Fiction.
- Volcanoes -- Fiction.
- Vesuvius (Italy) -- Eruption, 79 -- Fiction.
- Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Fiction.