Qb VII
A Novel
Published on 1. April 1982
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-553-27094-5 (ISBN)
Description
"You open the book and start reading. Quicker than you can say Uris you are caught up at once in the unfolding conflict. . . . It's a professional job all the way.. . dramatic, impassioned."-The New York Times Book Review
In Queen's Bench Courtroom Number Seven, famous author Abraham Cady stands trial. In his book The Holocaust-born of the terrible revelation that the Jadwiga Concentration camp was the site of his family's extermination-Cady shook the consciousness of the human race. He also named eminent surgeon Sir Adam Kelno as one of Jadwiga's most sadistic inmate/doctors. Kelno has denied this and brought furious charges. Now unfolds Leon Uris' riveting courtroom drama-one of the great fictional trials of the century.
"A fine suspense story, an excellent courtroom story, written with genuine passion. You won't put it down once you've picked it up. It is the author of Exodus at his best."-Newsday
In Queen's Bench Courtroom Number Seven, famous author Abraham Cady stands trial. In his book The Holocaust-born of the terrible revelation that the Jadwiga Concentration camp was the site of his family's extermination-Cady shook the consciousness of the human race. He also named eminent surgeon Sir Adam Kelno as one of Jadwiga's most sadistic inmate/doctors. Kelno has denied this and brought furious charges. Now unfolds Leon Uris' riveting courtroom drama-one of the great fictional trials of the century.
"A fine suspense story, an excellent courtroom story, written with genuine passion. You won't put it down once you've picked it up. It is the author of Exodus at his best."-Newsday
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Product notice
Paperback (mass)
Dimensions
Height: 174 mm
Width: 105 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
308 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-553-27094-5 (9780553270945)
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Persons
An internationally acclaimed novelist for over 30 years, Leon Uris was the author of Battle Cry, The Angry Hills, Exodus, Mila 18, Armageddon, Topas QB VII, Trinity, The Haj, Mitla Pass, and Redemption, and two highly praised works of nonfiction in collaboration with his wife, Ireland: A Terrible Beauty and Jerusalem: Song of Songs. He lived in Aspen, Colorado, with his wife, photographer Jill Uris, and their two children. He died in 2003.
Jill Uris is the author of Ireland Revisited and the co-author, with her husband, Leon Uris, of Jerusalem: A Song of Songs and Ireland: A Terrible Beauty.
Jill Uris is the author of Ireland Revisited and the co-author, with her husband, Leon Uris, of Jerusalem: A Song of Songs and Ireland: A Terrible Beauty.