{"product_id":"rumpole-and-the-reign-of-terror-isbn-9780143112587","title":"Rumpole and the Reign of Terror","description":"\u003cb\u003eJohn Mortimer's bestselling barrister is back, in his most timely case yet\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Just in case \u003ci\u003eRumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders\u003c\/i\u003e gave fans the impression that the Great Defender was resting on his laurels, his new case sends him at full sail into our panicky new world. Rumpole is asked to defend a Pakistani doctor who has been imprisoned without charge or trial on suspicion of aiding Al Qaeda. Meanwhile, on the home front, She Who Must Be Obeyed is threatening to share her intimate view of her husband in a tell-all memoir. The result is Rumpole at his most ironic and indomitable, and John Mortimer at his most entertaining.\"Mortimer delivers another first class mystery. (A)\"\u003cbr\u003e -\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"As ever, Mortimer proves himself master of the bon mot, cutting aside, and glorious run-on sentence. . . . Another delightfully entertaining and thought-provoking novel.\"\u003cbr\u003e -\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003eJohn Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s \u003ci\u003eBrideshead Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301133111525,"sku":"NP9780143112587","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143112587.jpg?v=1767735968","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/rumpole-and-the-reign-of-terror-isbn-9780143112587","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}