A Statue for Jacob (ePub)
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'This debt was not contracted as the price of bread or wine or arms. It was the price of liberty' - Alexander Hamilton
Kiah Harmon, a young Virginia lawyer, is just emerging from the most traumatic time of her life when actress Sam van Eyck walks into her office, unannounced, with the case of a lifetime. She asks Kiah to recover a 200-year-old debt from the US Government - a debt that goes right back to the time of Alexander Hamilton.
The selfless generosity of Sam's ancestor, Jacob van Eyck, in making a massive loan of gold and supplies at Valley Forge, during the freezing winter of 1777-1778, may well have saved George Washington's army, and the War of Independence, from disaster. But it reduced Jacob to ruin. Despite the government's promises, the debt was never repaid, and this hero of the American Revolution died in poverty, unknown and unrecognised.
Two hundred years later, Sam and Kiah embark on a quest to change that. But first, they will have to find the evidence, and overcome a stubborn Government determined to frustrate their every move.
Will Sam and Kiah succeed in finally getting Jacob the statue he deserves?
Praise for Peter Murphy
'I have hugely enjoyed reading A Statue for Jacob. You have put together a story which is intriguing as chapter follows chapter, and which I just had to keep on reading. It was an engrossing read' - Lord Judge, former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
'Murphy's clever legal thriller revels in the chicanery of the English law courts of the period' - Independent
'And Is There Honey Still For Tea? is an intelligent amalgam of spy story and legal drama' - Times
'No one writes with more wit, warmth and insight about the law and its practitioners than Peter Murphy' - David Ambrose, playwright and novelist
'It is to the author's credit that this fiction sometimes reads and feels like a dramatic re-telling of a real event' - Crime Review
'Murphy paints a trenchant picture of establishment cover-up, and cannily subverts the cliches of the legal genre in his all-too-topical narrative' - Financial Times
Peter started writing fiction more than twenty years ago, but following his retirement from the bench he became a full-time author, often drawing on the many experiences of his former career. Two political thrillers about the American presidency: Removal and Test of Resolve were followed by eight legal thrillers in the Ben Schroeder series about a barrister practising in London in the 1960s and 1970s. Alongside those he also penned the light-hearted series of short story colllections featuring Judge Walden of Bermondsey in the 'Rumpole' tradition, based in part on his own experiences as a lawyer and judge, and recently published A Statue for Jacob, based on the true story of Jacob de Haven.
Peter passed away in September 2022.
- Autor: Peter Murphy
- 2021, 384 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Old Castle Books
- ISBN-10: 0857304186
- ISBN-13: 9780857304186
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.07.2021
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