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The Sound of Trumpets Paperback – January 1, 1999

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In the final installment of the postWorld War II trilogy that began with the bestselling Paradise Postponed, the merciless MP Leslie Titmuss has been deposed and replaced by Terry Flitton, a centriststyle politician familiar to both sides of the Atlantic. Reprint.
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    288 pages
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    English
  3. Publisher
    Penguin Group USA
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1999
  5. Dimensions
    5 x 0.25 x 7.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0140288511
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0140288513
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John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Group USA; First Edition (January 1, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140288511
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140288513
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.25 x 7.75 inches
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TINA BARR
5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2013
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John Mortimer's THE SOUND OF TRUMPETS is a major political work of art. A novel penned in the post-Thatcher era it resonates as if only just written.

The character Lord Leslie Titmuss is the consummate politically manipulative, deceitful, ruthless behind the scenes puppet master.
Terry Flitton is the everyman wanting to be elected to Parliament to do good. Selling his soul is something Terry justifies yet does not see the inevitable consequences of these deceits.

We do not know what happens to the Lord and the M.P. The reader is left satisfied yet yearning for more story.

Brilliant.
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HDM
5.0 out of 5 stars Better than Rumpole
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2015
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Fantastic writing, I even prefer it to Rumpole! You do need to reed these books in the right order though.
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Glenn D.
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 26, 2018
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mortimer at his best very funny
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W. A. D.
3.0 out of 5 stars Rather disappointing.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 20, 2019
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Not up to the other books in the trilogy and clearly written as a commercial afterthought as it contradicts the end of the previous volume. Rather disappointing.
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Mrs M
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 15, 2018
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Brilliant
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Tamnjus
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 28, 2013
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Mortimer will always be at the top of the bookshelf! Highly recommended. You cannot appreciate more, the humour of John Mortimer!
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