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- Title
- A Perfect Execution
- Author
- BINDING, Tim
- Publisher
- Picador
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- 31197860
- Signed
- 11/14/2025 1:17:34 PM
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0330345648
- ISBN 13
- 9780330345644
- Edition
- 1763126254.
- Seller catalogs
- 1, 9780330345644, U
Profoundly changed after witnessing the death of a wounded World War II soldier, young Jeremiah Bembo becomes what he considers to be a "merciful executioner," who brings compassion and release to the dying.
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Review
From the author of In the Kingdom of Air comes A Perfect Execution, the tale of Jeremiah Bembo, England's greatest hangman. Propelled by a murder-mystery plot, the book is more the tale of the discovery of the hangman's true human identity than it is just a conventional search for the true identity of a murderer. Rich with metaphor--Bembo comes from a family of puppeteers and Binding doesn't shy away from references to manipulating the strings of destiny--and tautly executed, A Perfect Execution does an admirable job of getting inside the head of an executioner and rendering him both believable and believably human.
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