Anglický jazyk

Spectacle of Corruption, A

Vydavateľstvo: Abacus
Rok vydania: 2005
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9780349118314

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O knihe

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.