The Queen's Bench Courtroom Number VII of the London Law Courts is the setting for a libel action brought by a distinguished Polish doctor, Sir Adam Kelno. Abraham Cady, a successful novelist, had referred in his bestseller, The Holocaust, to Kelno's activities in a concentration camp during the last war...

I found this to be a page turner. It is the first Uris novel I've read. His style in this one is direct and quickly paced. Another reviewer says Uris is "not subtle" in this book, and I would agree, but did not find that to be a detriment. I didn't know anything about it when I picked it up in a used book store. The main theme is the actions in a Nazi concentration camp, but it also covers London, the English legal system, and British colonial Borneo. Finally, the structure of the book works well for the story. ( )

3787. Q B VII, by Leon Uris (read 21 Aug 2003) This is a 1970 book inspired by Uris being sued for libel because of a reference in his novel Exodus to a doctor in a Nazi concentration camp. The account of the trial is highly dramatic and well-done and succeeds in painting a horror-filled account of the doctor. Uris is not a great writer but he is impassioned when he tells of Jewish suffering and the book catches one up. Well worth reading--and easy to read, though non-subtle. ( )

Good. Depressing. More nazi-concentration-camp stuff. ( )