A perfect execution
Subtitle: a novel
By: Tim Binding
Publisher: Picador
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780330345644
Subjects: Executions and executioners; Fiction; History
Description: Jeremiah Bembo lives quietly growing fruit and vegetables which his wife Judith sells at the local market. In secret, under the name of Solomon Straw, he travels the country as England's executioner, carrying out the hangings required by law. In a post-war provincial Britain seamed with commonplace corruption, he strives to maintain a balance of compassion and justice, until a murder is committed which brings his two lives into an inevitable collision.