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Justice [Hardcover]

Ian St James (Author)
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Jack Webb wins all the prizes, including Ann Church, a gifted young American who brings her rare feel for music to London just as the Sixties start swinging. Together they make a formidable team as Jack abandons his career in the law to become a TV personality and an entertainment entrepreneur. Their friend Peter Mortlake is the son of a bullying father, and lives in a more private world. He seeks the satisfactions of life as a country solicitor.
Three lives bound by old friendships, until ambition turns to greed. Then everything changes: old loyalties are torn apart. Conflict escalates into a battle in the High Court which sets friend against friend, son against father, wife against husband and sees lovers divided. On trial is the law itself as Peter risks everything in a bid to gain Justice.
A triumph of modern storytelling - Justice is tense and tender, compulsive and explosive. Ian St James at the top of his form.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 480 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; First edition (August 4, 1988)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0002229552
  • ISBN-13: 978-0002229555
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,807,999 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ian St James, according to the press, was a millionaire at the age of thirty, when the merchant bank backing his enterprises collapsed and took his business with it. In the years afterwards he started a management consultancy and later turned it into a small investment house. In 1977 he retired to write full time and published eight best-selling novels; The Money Stones, The Balfour Conspiracy, Winner Harris, The Killing Anniversary, Final Resort, Justice, Vengeance and Cold New Dawn.

He also started the wildly successful Ian St James awards launching the careers of several published authors.

2012 sees the return of Ian St James as he brings his novels to the Kindle, introducing a new audience to his explosive mix of passion and adventure.

"Ian St James has the gift of story telling" THE TIMES

"Crisp writing, strong escalating plot" THE OBSERVER

"Irresistible" NEW YORK TIMES

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Completely satisfying popular fiction, January 9, 2007
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One of the most enjoyable novels I've read. For the pleasure it provides I'd rank it with Dick Francis's best. Set in England in the 1960s, it follows the relationship between three characters: the narrator, solicitor Peter "Tubby" Mortlake; his ambitious friend Jack Webb; and Ann Church, who enchants them both. The plot involves the law and the music business, with a court case that bookends the novel (and that I imagine was at least partly inspired by Gilbert O'Sullivan's battle with his record company.)

There's little subtlety here. If you want probing character study, or moral complexity, look elsewhere. But if you want a story about an unassuming hero standing up for what's right, grab this one. It's clear who the good guys are, and you, or anyway I, have no trouble rooting for them. Peter, the novel's center, is a thoroughly decent and likable man, great company for 500-plus pages. I reread Justice again every few years; that's how much I like it.
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