# Robbery Under Law (12)

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- Authors: [Evelyn Waugh](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelyn-waugh)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-1819-775-9
- Published: 2012-05-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In Robbery Under Law , subtitled 'The Mexican Object Lesson', Waugh presents a profoundly unpeaceful Mexican situation as a cautionary tale in which a once great civilisation - greater than the United States at the turn of the twentieth century - has succumbed, within the space of a single generation, to barbarism.