American Magna Carta - Robert Hamblett

A novel for our times, American Magna Carta holds to account the 0.1% of the 1% who act with total impunity above the law. When a fifth original Magna Carta is discovered, a cabal of bent academics, investment bankers and elements in the surveillance state conspire to possess the founding document of western democracy. Leaving a trail of destruction they are prepared to break every law in the book so they can bask in the glow of the 800-year-old Great Charter of Liberties that, ironically, embodies the notion that no one is above the Law. Standing in their way are Ricky Taleb, a Harvard Law student, Alison Sinclair, an intern from London, and Harry James, a new kind of action hero - a veteran of the Occupy Movement. Set against a backdrop of iconic landscapes from Glastonbury to London and from Boston to New York, the deft plot gathers pace towards a dramatic showdown at the very heart of global power. American Magna Carta is favourably comparable to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and Alan Moore's graphic novel V for Vendetta.