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Beneath the Clouds: The Struggle for Truth and Justice Can Turn Deadly Paperback – August 8, 2016

by Christopher Black (Author)

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Beneath the Clouds is a story of how people, acting collectively, can defeat tyranny. It is more than an action political thriller. This is a book about resistance to despotism. It is a call to arms.

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320 pages
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English
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August 8, 2016
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6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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6027354313
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978-6027354319
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Christopher Black is an international criminal lawyer, essayist and poet.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Badak Merah Semesta; 1st edition (August 8, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 6027354313
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-6027354319
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,899,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #11,395 in Political Fiction (Books)

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Luciana A. Bohne

A wonderful read!

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2016

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Christopher Black's "Beneath the Clouds" returns to the grand tradition of Dashiell Hammet's great detective novels, in which beneath the intricate and absorbing plot, lurks the layer of its probing purpose into the social and political reality of our world. The setting is a forlorn, urban Toronto in late March, as winter cannot die and spring cannot yet be born. In this in-between time, three men and three women are drawn from their private, solitary, and intimacy-deprived lives into a mighty collective force, which ultimately triumphs over corruption and political evil. They do not change the world, but they certainly change themselves and, too, push the truth for a brief moment into the public limelight. The truth flickers and is put out, but it is not gone--merely suspended. It will push itself into the light if more and more ordinary people accept the risk of becoming extraordinary while exposing the extraordinary conditions of injustice which we live today. I would not spoil the plot for readers: it is ingenious, suspenseful, and completely captivating. I gobbled it up in two nights. But, perhaps, the best aspect is the characters. They are not super-heroes. They are funny and familiar. They have a stubborn, almost involuntary, sense of decency, which simply makes them unfit to profit from their talents. They are counter-current characters--totally incapable of thriving in a grubby, acquisitive, and uncaring social disorder, but they become formidable when they band together. The setting, too, is evocative of our receding natural world. In fact, the first murder is committed, brutally, sadistically, and without mercy in the pastoral setting of an abandoned farm, with a lonesome dog the sole witness. Back on the bleak Toronto streets (the novel is a meticulous map of that city) we alternate between police stations and courts of law as if to say that repression and the law are first cousins. The theme of law and justice--their distance from each other--is alluded to as not strictly a local problem. One of the characters is an international criminal lawyer (as is the author), and he is haunted by an experience of monumental injustice against a Prime Minister (of Rwanda, not mentioned) on trial in Tanzania for fabricated crimes by "the international community." What goes on abroad goes on at home. And it needs to be set right by you and me and our best friends-- that was the message I got. What a wonderful read!

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RONALD MACKAY

These are no run-of-the-mill adversaries – they are agents of corrupt cliques that reach dark and deep into the very heart of the North American institutions we love and trust most

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2018

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Christopher Black Beneath the Clouds: The Struggle for Truth and Justice Can Turn Deadly.
Johnny Eiger is a hard-bitten Canadian lawyer. His work in Africa defending a general accused of crimes against humanity has made him bitter enemies. These are no run-of-the-mill adversaries – they are agents of corrupt cliques that reach dark and deep into the very heart of the North American institutions we love and trust most.
Christopher Black’s novel enjoys all the qualities of the best detective and mystery fiction. The fresh touch he brings and carries off so well is that in Beneath the Clouds, the tough, hard-boiled, understated, laconic, unflappable, hard-drinking, single-minded sometimes violent and sometimes sexy principal protagonist is not a detective but a lawyer intent on routing out international political corruption that peaks in the bleak urban landscape of Totonto.
Canadian Christopher Black has chosen to tell a series of interrelated narratives from the all-seeing perspective of the omnipresent third person and this works better than the first person – which is more traditional for the genre -- given the multitude of hard-boiled but very knowledgeable and sometimes sensitive main characters who accompany, support and sometimes double-cross Johnny Eiger on his dark journey. Their dialogue is fast-paced, wide-ranging and understates the yawning danger that confronts them.
Johnny Eiger is not the only protagonist, neither is there only one seductive woman or even a single plot. Beneath the Clouds weaves complexity upon complexity, plays character against character, man against man, woman against woman, one against all and all against one another. Eventually it seems that the world we thought we knew becomes so Dedalian, its people and its institutions so tangled and tortuous that they may be unfathomable. But that’s precisely where the author Christopher Black’s real-life training and experience as a defence lawyer comes in. And it comes in in spades to bring all to a resolution that subtly links the threats, the deaths and the mysteries that were spiraling out of control on two continents.
Or does it? You’ll have to read Under the Clouds to find out.
Canada and the world need a Raymond Chandler, a Robert Daly, a Dashiell Hammett, and “Beneath the Clouds” suggests that Christopher Black may have arrived to fill the void!

In addition to being a writer, essayist and poet, Christopher black is an international criminal lawyer whose experience closely resembles that of Johnny Eiger. If Beneath the Clouds is his way of suggesting that our institutions are not all that they seem to be, then we, as proud Canadians who see our Western traditions as glorious and free, should be profoundly troubled.

When will we see the film? And when will his next Johnny Eiger novel appear? I am definitely placing an advanced order for my copy!

Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2016

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An insightful and masterful diagnostic of the world we live in.

This novel is a pleasant surprise for me-
This is a very contemporary story of profound immorality permeating social and political structures at the expense of basic ethical and above all Human values: worth striving for, making our existence meaningful. Corporate power reducing the space of citizens to the criminal level. I am pleased how author used Rwanda and The President story /author's real life experience, as a Lawyer/- building subtle cohesion with current events.
It's value is in profound understanding of contemporary ''scenery'' a book about OUR REALITY presented in an exciting way- Author recognizes the pervasiveness of the corruption of human values but celebrates morality, integrity and sense of justice and presents convincingly that NO matter how small amount of preserved moral fiber is left in the society , it can defeat EVIL, CORRUPT and Inhumane. Because 'simili similis gaudet'' . And people do attract those with similar values- the best way to be victorious against EVIL is TO BE MORAL and JUST /Are we not doing that?/. BTW-The cover does not do it justice.

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James Cook

A throughly enjoyable "fiction" with real bite...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 9, 2017

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Christopher Black is undoubtedly drawing from his own experiences as a lawyer when he wrote this book. The realism of the storyline and the characters, makes this second to no other crime thriller I’ve ever read before. It is a captivating read that will either reinvigorate or galvanize your faith in humanity.

Needless to say, I highly recommend it!

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then it is really a sad, illuminati controlled world

Reviewed in Canada on January 22, 2018

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The topic of this book is quite valid, but the characters of this novel are all so vapid, sex and alcohol obsessed. Is there anything else that really interests Toronto lawyers and their secretaries and girlfriends? If not, then it is really a sad, illuminati controlled world. Even every interaction between the females in the book is about sexual attractions. From this point, the book is quite a disappointment.

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