Like the number 9 bus.. no legal fiction for ages and then 2 come along at the same time
In the US we’ve got
LAW, POLITICS AND MURDER OVERLAP IN COVINGTON LAWYER’S 12TH NOVEL
For a long time, Allan Topol has had two lives. By day, he’s a Covington regulatory and public policy lawyer in the firm’s DC office. On early mornings, weekends, vacations and airplanes, he authors geopolitical thrillers.
Allan’s penned 12 books so far; recently putting out well-reviewed novels at a rate of one per year. His latest, The Italian Divide, was released March 15. The two aspects of his life work well together, Allan tells us. He’s been doing a lot of international law and public policy work with the government affairs group, and the legal issues have an international aspect, as do his novels. (Though the novels have much more of a focus on espionage, murder and intrigue.) He says someone asked him whether he wants to be Craig Page, the hero of five of the books. “Maybe it is a fantasy for me.” Allan travels often both for work and to research for his novels, many of which are located abroad (eg, Italy, France, Argentina, Spain, Russia). He took four trips to Italy over several years to research The Italian Divide: taking notes, visiting the locations in the book and interviewing people—and, for realism’s sake, trying all of the restaurants and wines mentioned (an oenophile, he says wines from Piedmont in northwest Italy were his favorite). Back in DC, the Italian restaurant he frequents is Tosca, which has received mentions in a couple of his books. Calvert Woodley Fine Wines & Spirits owner Ed Sands has also received a book cameo, a gesture of gratitude in exchange for Ed’s help with wine business authenticity for a certain character (a Mossad agent posing as a wine importer in Paris). Ever since then, Allan has always done a book signing in the wine shop… READ MORE AT ABOVE LINK
and from the West Country in the UK
Barrister David Osborne reveals his past in legal in his new book Order in Court
By West Country Life | Posted: April 10, 2016
http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Barrister-David-Osborne-new-book/story-29063050-detail/story.html
- Barrister David Osborne says the events in his new series of novels have the basis of his own experience although embellished to make them more interesting
Tina Rowe takes a look at the characters and criminals of barrister David Osborne’s past, as well as his younger self, who readers will meet in his new series of novels
Barrister David Osborne made legal history when he delivered final speech to the jury entirely in verse. He has written a humorous book on the law, No Holds Barred, and now he has embarked on a planned series of novels in which the hero is a fictionalised version of his younger self.
Toby Potts, narrator of Order in Court, is a young man with a long way to go. The cases he is glad to take include the defence of a country house gardener whose dalliance with the daughter of the big house lands him in the dock; a mad American academic who believes he is on the hit list of an international energy cabal and a traveller chief denying ownership of a dog named Bullseye, which has bitten the “thinking parts” of a local council officer.
A rum collection of characters, but in court, as in the old News of the World advertisement, “all human life is there”. Prince Harry also makes an appearance, but in a wholly fictional capacity. READ MORE AT LINK ABOVE
