lunedì 27 luglio 2015

The four just men by Edgar Wallace

Part interesting/part boring. Well, he wrote these books many years ago, the world was different, so where the adventures. The 'just men' are rich men that once felt victims of an unjust society, and got together to judge and punish those people that can't be touched by the law. In a few years they have killed 16 people, apparently starting in 1899.
One of them was found out and killed, so the remaining three just men: Leon Gonsalez, Poiccart and George Manfred find a fourth to help them in the next mission: they choose a criminal as an ally so if something goes wrong it won't be any tragic loss: Thery.
Their thinking is: there's a revolutionary leader who found refuge in England, and apparently he's important because he'll change all his Country, replacing all the corrupt government, because apparently these three men believe this to be possible... the government cleaned of all the thieves and corrupt ones, and a good man in charge... it seems a story for children but after all it was a century ago, so this view of things was different.
Now that an English Minister wants to make a law that will ban all the foreigners that had found refuge in England but that were wanted in other countries for 'political crimes', the four men warns Sir Philip Ramon that if he doesn't back down he'll be killed. Sir Philip talks to the press about it. The sensational news catch the public's interest and curiosity. Sir Philip receives other warnings, but has no intention of giving up, not afraid for his life but afraid of humiliation only. Policemen from all around the Country converge to Downing Street, they do anything possible to stop them, but at exactly the right moment Sir Philip dies. Thery was an electrician, and the plan was to change the telephone's wire with high-voltage wire; a little problem was the fact that Thery did something wrong and took on himself the worst of the energy, and of course died instantly, and Sir Philip got just a bit of it but it was enough, for he also had a bad heart...
I like to thing that one of those three rich, respectable men at this point said: "I love it when a plan comes together" ...

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