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fast read. Four criminals swear to kill a man unless he does what they want, His honor demands that he shall not bend, But the criminals act only for the greater good, . .

A nice crime story of a type that isn't often seen these days, I liked it. I just finished not only The Four Just Men but the next one in the series The Council of Justice too.
It's good for the Four Just Men that I kept going after the first book because I didn't like them when I was reading the first one.
I am incredibly glad I am not one of the four just men because I don't want to be one of the people who not only decides who gets killed, but then goes and does it.
How would I ever decide who is worthy of living Or dying for that matter, I suppose I could pick all the serial killers, rapists or child molesters, but I still don't want to be the one doing the picking.
I keep having this imagine in my head of one day explaining to Jesus how I came to decide who lives and who dies, and that's even before I have to explain killing the person.
But, luckily for me I'm not one of the four just men, As for who they are:

We're told in the prologue the four men are Leon Gonsalez, Poiccart, George Manfred, and Thery, or Saimont, no one seems to know which name is really his.
He is the unlucky fourth man, he doesn't seem to know what he is doing there, what they are doing, what anyone is saying, as for being one of the four just men, he's never heard of them, and it is never clear to me how they came across this guy in the first place or how they talked him into helping them when he never heard of them before, but they did, and that's our four men.
As for Poiccart, if he has a first name no one told me about it, Oh, they are all wealthy gentlemen, the first three, I don't know what the fourth is, and they have nothing better to do with their money than run around killing people.
I have been giving some thought to the plot writing this obviously, and can't come up with one woman in the entire novel.
There had to be one in there somewhere, but I can't think of one, Anyway, these men feel that there are some bad guys that can get away with anything, so they have decided to make sure this doesn't happen.
They usually send the bad guy two warnings to stop whatever it is he is doing, and if he doesn't he ends up dead, usually in a strange way.


This time it is the British Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Philip Ramon, because he is trying to get a bill passed that will remove protection from extradition for foreign nationals living in exile in their country.
It doesn't seem like the kind of thing to kill the guy over, but that's what they are going to do.
I'm not sure why they are so upset, the politician guy is going to bring up the bill, whatever that's called, then I suppose they will debate it for an eternity, then finally vote on it, but it won't pass because the other side won't vote for it no matter what it says.
At least that's how it works here, By the time the bill would have passed all the exiles the four just men are trying to protect will have died of old age.
And so the rest of the book is them planning the murder, and the politician refusing to listen to them, and a whole bunch of police setting up traps and protection and things like that, and wondering if anyone is going to get killed and how, considering all the police standing around.


I'm not telling you any more about it except there are only three just men by the end of the book and, this I found fascinating, originally the book came with the offer of a huge prize for anyone who guessed the ending, unfortunately for Wallace he must not have been as mysterious as he thought because he eventually had to declare bankruptcy as too many people guessed correctly.
I wonder how huge the prize was, I'm not sure what he meant by guess the ending, I guessed who would be dead by the end, but not how.
I didn't like this one very much, I didn't like these guys running around choosing who lives and dies, but I continued on to the next one and I like that one better, so I'll move on to that one for my next review.
In the meantime, happy reading,Early Bird Book Deal About as one would expect from the time and the author, Use of the N word and an antiAsian slur once each near the beginning, Δεν με ενθουσίασε: ας προσπεράσω το τελειωμένο ξέπλυμα στη τρομοκρατία και να δώσω έμφαση στο βιβλίο ως ανάλαφρο ανάγνωσμα γιατί αυτό είναι. Δυστυχώς είναι κακογερασμένο με την έννοιά ότι η δομή του είναι κουραστική, συχνά υπονοούνται πράγματα και δεν είναι πάντα ευδιάκριτο τι γίνεται ακριβώς. Κρίμα γιατί αποπνέει μια vintagιά που μου αρέσει, γιαυτό και τα τρία αστεράκια. Θα ήθελα να βγούνε και τα υπόλοιπα της σειράς. Another audiobook I've listened to read by B, J Harrison. Picked this one up mainly because it was a decent length and sounded interesting enough, But I wasn't impressed. It was an alright story but not something I would hand in my Christmas three, Though my biggest reason picking the audiobook was to experience the narrator, Which I usually don't do, But I've seen a huge amount of books narrated by B, J Harrison so I was very intrigued to see if I enjoy his voice, It's very easy to listen to but not a voice that stands out from other narrator but he does do a good job reading An interesting twist on the crime novel.
Not a whodunnit, but a howdunnit, The murderers are also laid out as a group of wealthy vigilantes, righting wrongs that go unpunished by the legal system.
Although that stance is problematic in this book its fine when dealing with their past activities, such as killing priests for raping and then abandoning young girls, but less so when killing a minister of state for passing a government bill through a democratic parliament.


Also killing Ramon wouldnt stop the bill passing anyway, it would just happen in the next session.


So, intriguing, but the characters of the Just Men, the police force and the victim are drawn in far too broad strokes to really convince.


Sofor its innovative format and structure rather than for the writing and character building, This was an interesting twist from your average mystery, In my opinion, there really aren't any good guys, It does pose the question: when is vigilante justice justified

The story, however, was well written and quite suspenseful.

No one knows who the Four Just Men are, where they are from, or where in the world they could be at any given moment.
They are vigilantes who through ingenious means execute people they believe have gotten away with criminal activity, They have assassinated royalty who have murdered and gotten away with it priests who sexually abused their parishioners and other high profile people who have hurt others with impunity.


A minister in the British parliament is trying to push through a bill that would alter the amnesty status of certain Spanish delegates who would be persecuted and probably executed if forced to return to Spain this takes place during the Spanish Civil War.
The man receives a letter from the Four Just Men that warns him that if he brings the bill to Parliament, they will kill him.


The minister refuses to back down and a race is on in the Scotland Yard to discover the identity and plans of these four men before they carry out their threat.


Others with more phlegmatic dispositions might read the story calmly enough, but I found it stressful, suspenseful, but entertaining as well.
I have just found out there are more Four Just Men stories, This will not be the last book by Edgar Wallace I'll be reading, I can see why this was hot stuff in its day around the turn of theth century but it doesn't age well.
Wallace was an incredibly prolific writer of

thrillers, and this one introduced the venerable "locked room" mystery that was to become a staple of mysteries and thrillers for years.
A man, targeted for murder at a specific time, locks himself in a room in which there is no other access.
Yet he's murdered anywayhow The explanation here is barely convincing and not very satisfactory, The writing is a bit florid, the characters mostly generic, but the depiction of earlys London makes this somewhat worthwhile.
This was a very intense story especially given when it was written, It has certainly stood the test of time and could be classified today as a thriller, Having said that, I was stunned by the arrogance of the vigilantes, I think this sentence sums it up for me "Here are men arrogating to themselves the divine right of superior judgment.
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