Gallows Thief | Agenda Bookshop Skip to content
A01=Bernard Cornwell
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Bernard Cornwell
automatic-update
Category1=Fiction
Category=FJH
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Language_English
PA=Available
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
softlaunch

Gallows Thief

English

By (author): Bernard Cornwell

1820s Britain: after the wars with France, when unemployment was high and soldiers could be paid off, when the government was desperately afraid of social unrest, any crime was drastically punished and thousands were hung. But one could petition the King and an investigation might ensue

The man in the dark cell in Newgate Prison was due to hang in a week. He had been found guilty of murdering the aristocrat whose portrait he was painting. He claimed to be innocent but then the hangman had never hung a guilty man, he said. But even in 1820, the Home Secretary could occasionally use his powers to grant mercy if his investigator found cause and Rider Sandman, once of the First Foot Guards, is given the job.

Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo, has family debts to repay but when his first steps in the investigations produce a sizeable bribe to look the other way, this only arouses his smouldering anger over the condition of England, a country which he and others in Wellington's army had fought to preserve. Stepping between gentlemen's clubs and taverns, talking to aristocrats, fashionable painters, their models, and their mistresses, dodging professional cut-throats and deceptive swordsmen, Sandman uncovers a conspiracy of silence, a group whose proudest boast was that they would do anything for any one of them.

Sandman is a wonderful character, as yet undaunted by the sleazy streets, dank jails or the looming scaffold, and uncorrupted by politicians, sneering gentlemen or frightening bruisers, an investigator in the making and a brilliant, but very different, hero for all Bernard Cornwell fans.

See more
Current price €14.88
Original price €17.50
Save 15%
A01=Bernard CornwellAge Group_UncategorizedAuthor_Bernard Cornwellautomatic-updateCategory1=FictionCategory=FJHCOP=United KingdomDelivery_Delivery within 10-20 working daysLanguage_EnglishPA=AvailablePrice_€10 to €20PS=Activesoftlaunch
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
Product Details
  • Weight: 260g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Jun 2016
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780007437559

About Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell worked for BBC TV for seven years mostly as producer on the Nationwide programme before taking charge of the current Affairs department in Northern Ireland. In 1978 he became editor of Thames Televisions Thames at Six. Married to an American he now lives in the United States.

Customer Reviews

No reviews yet
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue we'll assume that you are understand this. Learn more
Accept