Gallows Thief Bernard Cornwell Harpercollins Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Mystery And Thrillers

1820S Britain: After The Wars With France When Unemployment Was High And Soldiers Could Be Paid Off Government Desperately Afraid Of Social Unrest Any Crime Drastically Punished Thousands Were Hung But One Petition King An Investigation Might Ensue… Man In Dark Cell Newgate Prison Due To Hang A Week He Had Been Found Guilty Murdering Aristocrat Whose Portrait Painting Claimed Innocent – Then Hangman Never Said Even 1820 Home Secretary Occasionally Use His Powers Grant Mercy If Investigator Cause Rider Sandman Once First Foot Guards Is Given Job Hero Waterloo Has Family Debts Repay Steps Investigations Produce Sizeable Bribe Look Other Way This Only Arouses Smouldering Anger Over Condition England Country Which Others Wellington\ S Army Fought Preserve Stepping Between Gentlemen\ Clubs Taverns Talking Aristocrats Fashionable Painters Their Models Mistresses Dodging Professional Cut-Throats Deceptive Swordsmen Uncovers Conspiracy Silence Group Proudest Boast That They Would Do Anything For Them Wonderful Character As Yet Undaunted By Sleazy Streets Dank Jails Or Looming Scaffold Uncorrupted Politicians Sneering Gentlemen Frightening Bruisers Making Brilliant Very Different All Bernard Cornwell Fans Σελίδες: 352 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm