Making Good Again - Softcover

Davidson, Lionel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571242901 ISBN 13: 9780571242900

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2009

Synopsis

Making Good Again, first published in 1968, was Lionel Davidson's fourth novel. The principal character, James Raison, is a lawyer. In Germany to deal with a claim for reparation he is plunged into the old conflict between Jew and Nazi. His trip becomes more dangerous as the legal aspects of the case become more complicated. At the same time he has to cope with his affair with Elke and his fascination for her fascist mother, Magda. As with all Lionel Davidson's novels it was showered with praise on publication. The Sunday Times called it 'a classical thriller told with much subtlety' and the Evening Standard 'part thriler, part morality - and doubly successful'.

About this title

Review:

'A brilliantly devised and passionately felt piece of serious entertainment' Sunday Times

About the Author:

Lionel Davidson was born in 1922 in Hull, Yorkshire. He left school early and worked as a reporter before serving in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. His first novel, The Night of Wenceslas, was published in 1960 to great critical acclaim and drew comparisons to Graham Greene and John le Carré. It was followed by The Rose of Tibet (1962), A Long Way to Shiloh (1966), The Chelsea Murders (1978) and Kolymsky Heights (1994). He was thrice the recipient of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award and, in 2001, was awarded the CWA's Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award. He died in 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0571242901
• ISBN 13: 9780571242900
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298