A Fourteenth Century Thriller: The Lawless Land
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Book Review: The Lawless Land
I was thinking, for contemporary books, and i guess you may well have experienced this, that it must be difficult to get over the fact that everybody has no phone in their pocket. So i guess if you go back to this mediaeval setting, you're really putting somebody in an empty room with no phone, no connectivity. And how do you deal with life then, which is probably a skill that we've forgotten. Yes, they are definitely on their own, and that's one reason the book is called the lawless land. The resort to law enforcement is virtually non existent. And sometimes the law is as corrupt, or more corrupt, than the people that they're fleeing.
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