# A Spectacle Of Corruption

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- Book: [A Spectacle Of Corruption](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-liss/a-spectacle-of-corruption) ([A Spectacle Of Corruption.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-liss/a-spectacle-of-corruption.md))
- Authors: [David Liss](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-liss)
- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4911-831-4
- Published: 2014-01-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Benjamin Weaver is awaiting death in Newgate gaol. Mysteriously convicted for a murder he didn't commit by a judge determined to see him hang, he is suddenly - and equally mysteriously - offered the means to escape. What, you may well ask, is going on? It's a question Weaver asks of himself as he slinks out into the London night on a mission to clear his name. In doing so, he steps straight into a labyrinthine plot that weaves, like Benjamin, across eighteenth century London. For the conspiracy against him is part of a grimmer and gaudier picture: one that encompasses double-dealings and dockworkers, the extorting of a priest - and a looming election with the potential to spark a revolution and topple the monarchy. Handily, Weaver is a private investigator. He's also an ex-pugilist, which is also a good thing when it comes to punching his weight in the 'polite' society of plotters and politicians, power-brokers, crime lords, assassins and spies. At the apex of which sits, rather precariously, a recent import from Hanover: The King.