The Monster's Lament: A Novel
A Fiction book. Having read several of Edric's books and really enjoyed the quality and the variety of subject...
An extraordinary imagining of the dark arts in war-torn London from one of the most brilliant literary talents around. April 1945. While the Allied Forces administer the killing blow to Nazi Germany, at home London's teeming underworld of black marketeers, pimps, prostitutes, conmen and thieves prepare for the coming peace. But the man the newspapers call the English Monster, the self-procaimed Antichrist, Aleister Crowley, is making preparations for the future too: for his immortality. For Crowley's plan to work, he has to depend upon one of London's Most Wanted, ambitious gangland boss Tommy Fowler, who, presiding over a crumbling empire, can still get you anything you want -- for a price. And what Crowley wants is a young man, Peter Tait, in Pentonville Prison under sentence of death for murder. Convinced of his innocence but unable to prove it, his only chance...
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- Pages: 368 pages
- ISBN: 9780857520050 / 0
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Great book. Fantastically done with a great ending. I love reading this author. Having read several of Edric's books and really enjoyed the quality and the variety of subject matter I was disappointed with this novel. Set at the end of WW2 it creates a reasonable impression of London at that time but the characters are two-dimensional and are inconsistently drawn, alternately all-knowing and ignorant, while the... What a bore! The gangster stuff was just one big clich and the stuff with Aleister Crowley a complete damp squib. Wont be reading anything else by this author.
