Pompeii: A Novel

Pompeii: A Novel
ISBN-10
0345475674
ISBN-13
9780345475671
Series
Pompeii
Category
Fiction
Pages
349
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Fawcett Books
Author
Robert Harris

Description

Recently placed in charge of the Aqua Augusta, the aqueduct that brings fresh water to thousands of people around the bay of Naples, Roman engineer Marius Primus struggles to discover why the aqueduct has ceased delivering water and heads to the slopes of Mount Vesuvius to find the problem, only to come face to face with an impending catastrophe of mammoth proportions. Reprint.

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