Rumpole and the reign of terror
By: John Mortimer
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor/Paragon
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Bath]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781405616126; 9781405616133
Subjects: Horace Rumpole (Fictitious character); Fiction; Legal stories; Terrorism; Prevention
Description: While defending a mind-numbingly dull theft charge, Rumpole finds that the new terrorist laws have hamstrung his beloved courts. Meanwhile, a Pakistani doctor has been imprisoned without charge or trial under suspicion of aiding al Qaeda in its plans for a terrorist attack. With the doctors wife begging him to help her husband, the Great Defender is determined to bring the case before a jury. Trouble is also brewing at home as Hilda - She Who Must Be Obeyed - sits down to write her own memoirs describing her view of Rumpole and her own love life. Rumpole's battle on the home front threaten to derail his case but where there's a Rumpole, there's a way.