A Spectacle of Corruption (Benjamin Weaver, #2)

Benjamin Weaver is awaiting death in Newgate gaol. Mysteriously convicted for a murder he didnt commit by a judge determined to see him hang, he is suddenlyand equally mysteriouslyoffered the means to escape.

What, you may well ask, is going on? Its 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 priestand a looming election with the potential to spark a revolution and topple the monarchy.

Handily, Weaver is a private investigator. Hes 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.