Checkmate - Softcover

Lofts, Norah

 
9780449234884: Checkmate

Synopsis

Her mouth was bleeding, her eyes were red, and her clothes were ripped and muddied. At first he felt desolate...helpless...and then those feelings turned to anger - an anger that blotted out all other emotions - an anger that screamed for revenge... Jenny was just 16, the only child of a father condemned to life in a wheelchair. Tom Penfold felt all the outrage, all the fury that any father would feel if his daughter returned home shocked and shaken after being brutally assaulted. And later, when he found there were special reasons why the police could not be involved, he decided to enforce his own justice - in which the wit and strength of a crippled man was pitted against a vicious youth...

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About the Author

Norah Lofts was one of the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists and many of her books remain in print today. Anne Boleyn is one of her rare - yet highly successful - forays into non-fiction and displays her trademark application of authentic period detail to a gripping narrative. Her fictionalised account of Anne Boleyn's life, The Concubine, was a huge bestseller in the UK and US. Lofts wrote more than fifty books.

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