A Spectacle Of Corruption - David Liss - Bog - Little, Brown Book Group - Plusbog.dk
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.
A Spectacle Of Corruption - Bog af David Liss - Paperback
A rambunctious eighteenth century detective story.