The Devil's advocate with a gift for gaiety Critic's choice

From: Daily Mail | Date: August 19, 2005| Author: PETER LEWIS | Copyright information

JOHN MORTIMER: THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE by Graham Lord (Orion, Pounds 20) SURPRISINGLY, we find in the biographer's dock Sir John Mortimer QC, a national treasure, accused of being less than 100 per cent pure or proof against human weakness.

There is a complication in this case, which might be called biographer's pique. Graham Lord, an experienced journalist and biographer, asked to write this book with the subject's co- operation, to which he says Mortimer 'jovially agreed'.

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