An Honest Man: Law and disorder in 1960s London (Charles Holborne Legal Thrillers Book 2)

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I really enjoyed this book and I'm definitely going to look out for more books by Ben Fergusson in future.

It's a highly plotted book, where different characters' viewpoints really matter, and every chapter moves the action forward. Charles who is the honest man in the title has to grapple with bent policemen and other problems as he tries to check into the background of the case before it gets to court, The court is the Central Criminal Court known as The Old Bailey and if you have ever done jury service there, as I have some years ago, it is a very impressive place to be in and the nuts and bolts of a court case occurring there are very daunting but also very interesting. He studied English Literature at Warwick University and Modern Languages at Bristol University and has worked as an editor, translator and publisher in London and Berlin. The author here obviously has a thing for Berlin geography, geology and history as the detail around all of these areas is spot on. So if you want to read a historical mystery set in the mid twentieth century with a very interesting and detailed legal basisBased on real Old Bailey cases and genuine court documents, An Honest Man is the second in the series of Charles Holborne novels by barrister, Simon Michael, set in the sleazy London of the 1960s. I love novels where characters can evolve, can tell a story that draws me deep into it, and that makes me long for those fictional people and their stories the moment I read the last lines of the book. Sterling begins to spread the word to the parents of these children, most of which already do not like Israel or want him there, and they now have a forced vendetta against him as a potential pedophile. This is a gentle spy story but more importantly it is a tender coming of age and moving evocation of Berlin in the months before the fall of the wall.

He is wrongly accused of murdering his wife and the plot centres round his struggle to get his life back together. In 2022, he will publish his first book of non-fiction, Tales from the Fatherland, an exploration of same-sex parenthood. What it is, is an amazingly written suspenseful love story taking place in West Berlin in the summer of 1989 right before the eminent collapse of the Berlin Wall. This is pointed out in the Acknowledgements at the end of the novel and shows the great literary pedigree Michael Koryta was raised on.But the book’s strengths overcome these weaknesses, and AN HONEST MAN is a transcendent entry in the oeuvre of a modestly talented craftsman who once in a great while manages to engage a higher gear. His narrative is sensuous, as he always seem to loose himself in the bodies of those around him (noting the way the light illuminates someone's hair or face).

Showing no remorse for what his nephew did fifteen years earlier, Sterling is quick to want to place serious shade and suspicion upon Israel for this mass homicide.A troubled man infamous on Salvation Point Island for killing his own father a decade before, Israel has few options, no friends, and a life-threatening secret. p>Sign up to the Little, Brown newsletter for news of upcoming publications, competitions and updates from our authors. Sign up to the Little, Brown newsletter for news of upcoming publications, competitions and updates from our authors. The book concludes as the Berlin wall falls and, as with so much of the background in this novel, it is conveyed partly by the well-known images but also a clear sense the moment.