num_pages: 256
description: In 1649, no lawyer in the country would accept the brief of prosecuting Charles I, except one — John Cook, the bravest of barristers, who was killed as punishment for sending the King to the scaffold.From the Hardcover edition.
language: English
title: The Tyrannicide Brief
titlecomplete: The Tyrannicide Brief
genres: English Civil War, Historical, Biography, Religion, Politics, British Literature, European History, Law, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 320
publisher: Vintage Books