A Spectacle Of Corruption - Softcover

Liss, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349118310 ISBN 13: 9780349118314

Verlag: Abacus, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Benjamin Weaver is awaiting death in Newgate gaol. Mysteriously convicted for a murder he didn't commit by a judge determined to see him hang, he is suddenly - and equally mysteriously - offered the means to escape. What, you may well ask, is going on?
It's a question Weaver asks of himself as he slinks out into the London night on a mission to clear his name. In doing so, he steps straight into a labyrinthine plot that weaves, like Benjamin, across eighteenth century London. For the conspiracy against him is part of a grimmer and gaudier picture: one that encompasses double-dealings and dockworkers, the extorting of a priest - and a looming election with the potential to spark a revolution and topple the monarchy.
Handily, Weaver is a private investigator. He's also an ex-pugilist, which is also a good thing when it comes to punching his weight in the 'polite' society of plotters and politicians, power-brokers, crime lords, assassins and spies. At the apex of which sits, rather precariously, a recent import from Hanover: The King.

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Author of the Edgar-Award-winning A CONSPIRACY OF PAPER (Best first crime novel in the USA).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Abacus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0349118310
• ISBN 13: 9780349118314
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
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