A Perfect Execution

Tim Binding

ISBN 10: 0330345648 / ISBN 13: 9780330345644

Published by Picador, London, UK, 1996

About this Item

Signed first printing. Firmly bound in clean black cloth boards with silver titling to spine. Corners and spine ends all fine. Text pages and end papers have no markings or previous owner inscriptions - although there is the onset of some age related toning to page edges. Signed without dedication by author to title page. D/J is unclipped with no damages and is protected in a removable clear cover. Despatched same or next working day in protective packaging.

Seller Inventory # 010294

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Perfect Execution
• Publisher: Picador, London, UK
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330345648
• ISBN 13: 9780330345644
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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.