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Author: Graham GreeneCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackPages: 224Publisher: Vintage PublishingYear: 2001ISBN: 9780099286158
This is the story of Francis Andrews, a young man whose betrayal of his fellow smugglers has left a man dead. Fearing vengeance, he flees and takes refuge in the house of a young, isolated woman who persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices in court. But neither she nor Andrews is aware that to both criminals and authority, treachery is as great a crime as smuggling.
George Carman QC was, and perhaps still is, Britain's most famous lawyer within living memory. Karen Phillipps presents a portrait of this eminent advocate through the cases that made him famous.
A classic collection of stories - all told on the skin of a man - from the author of Fahrenheit 451.