Pompeii: From the Sunday Times bestselling author

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Schaefer, Sandy (September 18, 2012). "Paul W.S. Anderson To Helm 'Pompeii' ". screenrant . Retrieved February 27, 2014.

Pompeii by Robert Harris | Books | The Guardian

Born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, he attended the University of Cambridge where he served as president of the Cambridge Union and editor of Varsity—the oldest student newspaper at the institution. What follows is a disaster of greed, the deception of experts, and the paying of monstrous sums of money to earn the rights to publish the book across the globe. The depiction of the eruption is based on eruptions which occurred all over the world over the last ten years. Anderson cites the volcanic eruption of Mount Etna in Italy and various eruptions of Japanese volcanoes as specific examples of volcanic eruptions which the production crew observed through footage which has been captured on film. [29] Furthermore, Anderson wanted to portray the lightning which is often seen in the ash cloud above eruptions, as he had never seen it portrayed before, and he felt it was both magnificent and very terrifying. The animation team was so concerned with realism in the eruption that they would always have real photographs and footage of real eruptions visible to them on separate screens as they put together the eruption of Mount Vesuvius for the film. [29] Rosaly Lopes, a volcanologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, supported Anderson's work, stating that the film "realistically captured the earthquakes that preceded the eruption, the explosions and the pyroclastic flows of hot ash and gas that buried the city and its residents." [30] It’s a cold November morning. Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a frightened stranger. What follows is a series of events that will push his employer into one of the most prominent courtroom dramas in history. It’s Spring of 1983. From the look of things, it seems as though of the most unexpected discoveries of the century has been made.A former British prime minister seeking refuge in a far off ocean-front house in America struggles to finish his memoirs when he learns of the death of his long-term assistant. When it comes to the secretive inner circle of the filthy rich, one Alex Hoffmann is right at the centre of it.

Pompeii (novel) - Wikipedia

He explains the situation to Pliny, and gets his support, and then races off first to Pompeii and then to fix the aqueduct. Derived from real historical figures, these stories tell of their alliances and betrayals, their cruelties and seductions, their flashiness and their misdeeds.The senator on the other hand is Cicero, a sharp young lawyer and gifted orator, determined to attain absolute power in the state. Attilius' first encounter with Ampliatus shows the man at his very worst (having a slave put to death) -- but their paths will cross again.