Rumpole and the Reign of Terror.Rumpole and the Reign of Terror Reign of Terror, 1793–94, period of the French Revolution characterized by a wave of executions of presumed enemies of the state. Directed by the Committee of Public Safety, the Revolutionary government's Terror was essentially a war dictatorship, instituted to John Mortimer Viking 375 Hudson St., NY NY 10014 0670038040 $23.95 www.us.penguingroup.com 800-847-5515 John Mortimer has, to the delight of his fans, brought back Rumpole of the Bailey Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by British writer and barrister Sir John Mortimer, QC and starring Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients. , self-described as having a 'slightly raffish raff·ish adj. 1. Cheaply or showily vulgar in appearance or nature; tawdry. 2. Characterized by a carefree or fun-loving unconventionality; rakish. air?, a little tarnished, jovial but not quite respectable.' In a case very much of the times, Rumpole is called upon to defend a man who has been picked up by the police and detained, without benefit of counsel, or even of formal charges having been brought. To make matters worse, the man, a doctor, is a Pakistani, and most make an assumption of guilt on his part, including She Who Must Be Obeyed She Who Must Be Obeyed may refer to:
The presumption of innocence, an ancient tenet of Criminal Law, is actually a misnomer. According to the U.S. may have been all very well in their day. But times change. History moves on." Rumpole despairs of adherence to things like the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights any longer. But being Rumpole, he knows he must find a way despite it all. Even more frightening to him than the abridgement of civil rights in the name of fighting terror, Rumpole must deal with the fact that his beloved wife has started writing her memoirs, to parts of which the reader is made privy in these pages. Utterly charming, as is this novel. Recommended. |
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