Gallows Thief: A Novel - Brossura

Cornwell, Bernard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060082747 ISBN 13: 9780060082741

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2005

Riassunto

When Waterloo veteran Rider Sandman returns home to England from the war, he finds his country rife with corruption, social unrest, and a justice system that sends innocent people to the gallows and takes a job investigating the case of a painter sentenced to hang for a murder he did not commit. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

BERNARD CORNWELL is the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales series, which includes The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, Lords of the North, Sword Song, The Burning Land, Death of Kings, The Pagan Lord, and, most recently, The Empty Throne and Warriors of the Storm, and which serves as the basis for the hit television series The Last Kingdom. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod and in Charleston, South Carolina.

Product Description:

The year is 1820. Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo, returns to London to wed his fiancee. But instead of settling down to fame and glory, he finds himself penniless in a country where high unemployment and social unrest rage, and where men--innocent or guilty--are hanged for the merest of crimes.When he's offered a job as private investigator to re-open the case of a painter due to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit, Sandman readily accepts--as much for the money as for a chance to see justice done in a country gone to ruins.Soon, however, he's mired in a grisly murder plot that keeps thickening. Sandman makes his way through gentlemen's clubs and shady taverns, aristocratic mansions, and fashionable painters' studios determined to rescue the innocent young man from the rope. But someone doesn't want the truth revealed.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060082747
• ISBN 13: 9780060082741
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 297