The story is a kind of cat-and-mouse game where the reader, along with the entire British public, waits to see if the Four Just Men succeed in carrying out their threat to assassinate the Foreign Secretary. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Edgar Wallace's The Four Just Men is a classic political thriller reimagined for modern readers.When the British Foreign Secretary decides to push through a law which will allow the enforced return of political refugees to their countries of origin, he becomes a target of the Four Just Men – a group of vigilantes who set out to right what they perceive as wrongs that the normal systems of justice can’t touch. The first in a series of six novels, The Four Just Men is an absolute thrill ride from start to finish. Justifying their use of murder through a dedicated application of morality, "The Four Just Men" rid the world of sex traffickers, factory owners, politicians on the take, and countless others who seem always to threaten human life without facing the consequences. As news of their brotherhood spreads, gaining them the attention of numerous international intelligence agencies, their list of targets dwindles with each successful move they make. Together, this Englishman, Frenchman, Italian, and Spaniard are known as "The Four Just Men." Using their power and influence as businessman and aristocrats, these unlikely vigilantes have become humanity's only hope for justice, a unified front against corruption, abuse, and anarchy. At a small café in the city of Cadiz, four men gather to discuss the affairs of the world.
Like many of Wallace's stories and novels, The Four Just Men was adapted into a silent film in 1921 before being made into a popular television series in 1959.
The book that launched Wallace's career as one of England's leading popular fiction writers, The Four Just Men was released in conjunction with a newspaper competition allowing readers to guess the truth behind the unsolved mystery at the end of the novel. The Four Just Men (1905) is a political thriller by Edgar Wallace.
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