Liss D: Spectacle Of Corruption

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. . Language: English