David Liss
Benjamin Weaver is awaiting death in Newgate gaol. Mysteriously convicted for a murder he didnâ€™t commit by a judge determined to see him hang, he is suddenlyâ€”and equally mysteriouslyâ€”offered the means to escape.,What, you may well ask, is going on? Itâ€™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 priestâ€”and a looming election with the potential to spark a revolution and topple the monarchy.,Handily, Weaver is a private investigator. Heâ€™s also an ex-pugilist, which is also a good thing when it comes to punching his weight in the â€˜politeâ€™ 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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A Spectacle of Corruption