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Two friends who had taken the bar together end up taking very different paths… one is about to crown his ambition with a judgeship – the other stands accused of high treason in a plot to kill the Queen.
Successful attorney Frank Thornton stands accused of taking part in an IRA plot to assassinate the Queen. He is shocked when the chief witness against him turns out to be Alistair Scrutton, his law school chum. Frank calls on Roz Forbes, the deputy editor of The Times, to save him from certain execution for treason.
But it is the shadowy figure of Krait, an international terrorist and assassin, who hold the key to the mystery of Thornton’s plight…
Successful attorney Frank Thornton stands accused of taking part in an IRA plot to assassinate the Queen. He is shocked when the chief witness against him turns out to be Alistair Scrutton, his law school chum. Frank calls on Roz Forbes, the deputy editor of The Times, to save him from certain execution for treason.
But it is the shadowy figure of Krait, an international terrorist and assassin, who hold the key to the mystery of Thornton’s plight…
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