Robert Harris is the award-winning author of fourteen internationally bestselling novels, including Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost Writer, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, Conclave, Munich, The Second Sleep, and V2, as well as his trilogy of novels about the Roman statesman Cicero Imperium, Conspirata and Dictator. His novels have been translated into 40 languages, and seven have been adapted for the screen, including most recently Munich, a Netflix feature film starring Jeremy Irons as Neville Chamberlain. Harris earned a degree in English from Cambridge University; before becoming a full-time novelist he worked as a reporter for the BBC, was political editor of the Observer, and a columnist for the London Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph. He is married to the writer Gill Hornby and lives in England; they have four children.