Rumpole and the reign of terror

By John Mortimer

Subjects: Prevention, Legal stories, Horace Rumpole (Fictitious character), Fiction, Terrorism

Description: While defending a mind-numbingly dull theft charge, Rumpole finds that the new terrorist laws have hamstrung his beloved courts. Meanwhile, a Pakistani doctor has been imprisoned without charge or trial under suspicion of aiding al Qaeda in its plans for a terrorist attack. With the doctors wife begging him to help her husband, the Great Defender is determined to bring the case before a jury. Trouble is also brewing at home as Hilda - She Who Must Be Obeyed - sits down to write her own memoirs describing her view of Rumpole and her own love life. Rumpole's battle on the home front threaten to derail his case but where there's a Rumpole, there's a way.