![]() ![]() Some time later, in the first chapter, London journalists are agog about one particular news item that leads to this revelation: “Cabinet minister in danger. Together, it appears, they plot the demise of an English minister who proposes to introduce a parliamentary bill that would threaten the life of Manuel Garcia, leader of a movement that-presumably-brings hope to the people of the country where they reside. We learn they “kill for justice, which lifts us out of the ruck of professional slayers.” When they “see and unjust man oppressing his fellows…and know that by the laws of man this evildoer may escape punishment-we punish.” These four men discuss the recent death of “a governor of one of the Southern Provinces”, killed in a bombing, and how explosives are an inexact method to kill. “Leon Gonsalez was one, Poiccart was another, George Manfred was a notable third, and one, Thery, or Saimont, was the fourth.” Of these the narrator notes that Thery “requires no introduction to the student of contemporary history” or “to all students of criminology and physiognomy, Thery must need no introduction.” ![]() ![]() A most unusual crime novel begins at the Cafe of the Nations on the High Street of Cadiz, where four men sat about one table and talked business. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |