Gallows Thief - Softcover

Cornwell, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060516283 ISBN 13: 9780060516284

Publisher: Harper Torch, 2003

Synopsis

When Waterloo veteran Rider Sandman returns home to England from the war, he finds his country rife with corruption, social unrest, and a justice system that sends innocent people to the gallows and takes a job investigating the case of a painter sentenced to hang for a murder he did not commit. Reprint.

About this title

Review:

‘Bernard Cornwell is a literary miracle. Year after year, hail, rain, snow, war and political upheavals fail to prevent him from producing the most entertaining and readable historical novels of his generation…Cornwell at his best is utterly compelling. And this is Cornwell at his best.’ Daily Mail

‘Page for page, sentence for sentence, scene for heart-stopping scene GALLOWS THIEF is the strongest historical novel I have read this year…he tells a cracking yarn and fills it with vivid characters and writes crisp dialogue and gets the period detail right..it is hard to stop reading…it is masterly.’ Sunday Telegraph

About the Author:

BERNARD CORNWELL is the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales series, which includes The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, Lords of the North, Sword Song, The Burning Land, Death of Kings, The Pagan Lord, and, most recently, The Empty Throne, and which serves as the basis for the hit television series The Last Kingdom. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod and in Charleston, South Carolina.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Torch
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060516283
• ISBN 13: 9780060516284
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 373