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Rumpole and the Reign of Terror

John Mortimer

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English
Penguin
01 October 2007
Rumpole keeps his head while all around him threaten to lose theirs . .

Justice isn't blind - it's just a little short sighted and weak around the knees ...

A Rumpole novel which takes on New Labour and the Timson family, and includes extracts from the memoirs of Hilda Rumpole, aka She Who Must Be Obeyed ... Tiffany Timson's new husband Mahmoud Khan, is arrested on suspicion of terrorism. Rumpole is frustrated in his defence campaign by New Labour laws that render the British legal system a farce - defending a suspected terrorist proves a tricky task even for the great defender ... He insists upon a fair trial, and his fight for justice brings him into confrontation not only with Hilda, but with the leaders of New Labour ...
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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 196mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   142g
ISBN:   9780141025704
ISBN 10:   0141025700
Pages:   192
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

John Mortimer is a novelist, playwright and former practising barrister. Among his many publications are several volumes of Rumpole stories and a trilogy of political novels (Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained, and The Sound of Trumpets) featuring Leslie Titmuss. Sir John received a knighthood for his services to the arts in 1998.

Reviews for Rumpole and the Reign of Terror

Horace Rumpole forgoes his usual diet of lowlife clients (Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders, 2004, etc.) to defend an accused terrorist, with predictably lightsome results.According to Peter Plaistow, who's been prosecuting threats against Her Majesty's government for as long as Rumpole's been swilling Chateau Thames Embankment, Dr. Mahmood Khan, a Pakistani immigrant who's lived half his life in the Kilburn house his father left him, is a terrorist. For security reasons, however, neither Rumpole nor his client is allowed to know exactly what offenses he's supposed to have committed. When Rumpole goes up against Plaistow in court, his ringing invocation of the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights gets him nothing but a lecture about how jury trials and the presumption of innocence may have been all very well in their day. Meanwhile, his wife Hilda, who confides to her diary that Dr. Khan must be dangerous or the government wouldn't have arrested him in the first place, is concerned about Rumpole's possible designs on a sweet young thing but scarcely notices that the judge she's seeing is bent on easing her into divorce.The rollicking means by which Rumpole wangles a jury trial, in which he can learn what his client is accused of and then get him acquitted, shed no light on the graver conflicts between state security and individual freedom, but there's never any doubt which side Mortimer is on. (Kirkus Reviews)


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