Leather

by Andrew Shaw

The prison was a hellhole where the trustees wore - Leather. Phones Plan was a sick man . . . one who had no business being in charge of a prison. H knew of what went on n the cell-blocks and outside on the work details . . . but he co-existed with Bertha's "systems" as did she with his . . . and the result was dead-end horror for those who knew the bitter caress of leather.

159 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1966

About the author

Andrew Shaw is a former BBC reporter who gave it all up to travel to China to study the craft of jade carving. He has become a gold medal-winning master carver. Andrew has a a unique style which mixes traditional Chinese ideas with modern Western designs. He is the only foreigner living and working as a jade carver in the Middle Kingdom. His first book, Jade Life, was an Amazon bestseller. His second book, Spoil, about how the West looted China of its treasures in the 19th century, has been critically acclaimed and made a significant contribution to the campaign to return these artefacts to their rightful owners.

Reviews

[Steven · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sue Sills is setup by her boss to take the fall for the embezzlement he did. She is sentenced to ten years in a women's prison. Farley Brock is the lawyer who eventually gets her out of prison, but not before . . . let your imagination run wild. Although, there is a fair amount of purple prose, this is one of the better written sleazers I've come across. Unfairly imprisoned, a struggle to survive, and fight for freedom. Fairly explicit, with a lot of punishment, but nowhere near as brutal as some contemporary novels, such as Greg Barth's Diesel Therapy from the Selena series.