Books with extra thrust.
Sol Yurick’s cult novel, originally published in 1966, blasts the American judicial system and society in general.
It was called ‘one of the fiercest and most effective satires to come out of America in a decade’ by The Spectator. Although written before his debut published novel The Warriors (1965), like that work, Fertig was eventually made into a movie – The Confession (1999) starring Ben Kingsley.
It is now available for the first time in over three decades.
Fertig… is like Raymond Chandler, like some of Norman Mailer… Fertig is a book!
Tribune
One of the fiercest and most effective satires to come out of America in a decade.
Spectator
Sol Yurick’s knowledge of the sometimes alarming working of the American judicial system, the political graft, the personal vendettas is encyclopaedic … and his criticism by implication of a society in which one’s chances of medical survival depend upon one’s ability to pay, is damning.
Irish Times