Category: Fiction_

Copyright/published Year: 2004 by Ballantine

ISBN: 0-375-76089-X

Binding: Paper

Description: Benjamin Weaver, the quick-witted pugilist turned private ì investigator, returns in David Liss' sequel to the Edgar Award ì winning novel, A Conspiracy of Paper.

Moments after his conviction for a murder he did not commit, at a ì trial presided over by a judge determined to find him guilty, ì Benjamin Weaver is accosted by a stranger who cunningly slips a ì lockpick and a file into his hands. In an instant he understands ì two things: Someone had gone to a great deal of trouble to see ì him condemned to hang -- and another equally mysterious agent is ì determined to see him free.

So begins A Spectacle of Corruption, which heralds the ì return of Benjamin Weaver, the hero of A Conspiracy of ì Paper. After a daring escape from eighteenth-century London?s ì most notorious prison, Weaver must face another challenge: how to ì prove himself innocent of a crime when the corrupt courts have ì already shown they want only to see him hang. To discover the ì truth and clear his name, he will have to understand the ì motivations behind a secret scheme to extort a priest, uncover ì double-dealings in the unrest among London's dockworkers, and ì expose the conspiracy that links the plot against him to the ì looming national election?an election with the potential to spark ì a revolution and topple the monarchy.

Unable to show his face in public, Weaver pursues his inquiry in ì the guise of a wealthy merchant who seeks to involve himself in ì the political scene. But he soon finds that the world of polite ì society and politics is filled with schemers and plotters, men ì who pursue riches and power -- and those who seek to return the ì son of the deposed king to the throne. Desperately navigating a ì labyrinth of politicians, crime lords, assassins, and spies, ì Weaver learns that, in an election year, little is what it seems ì and the truth comes at a staggeringly high cost.

Once again, acclaimed author David Liss combines historical ì erudition with mystery, complex characterization, and a ì captivating sense of humor. A Spectacle of Corruption offers ì insight into our own world of political scheming, and it firmly ì establishes David Liss as one of the best writers of intellectual ì suspense at work today.

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