A perfect execution : a novel / Tim Binding

Binding, Tim

ISBN 10: 0330345648 / ISBN 13: 9780330345644

Published by London : Picador, 1996

About this Item

Fine copy in the original color-printed stiff-card wrappers in fine clear plastic dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 344 pages; Description: 344 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Executions and executioners --Great Britain --Fiction. 1 Kg.

Seller Inventory # 188015

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A perfect execution : a novel / Tim Binding
• Publisher: London : Picador
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330345648
• ISBN 13: 9780330345644
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Paperback Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 1 kilogram

About this title

Synopsis

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.

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.