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The Treatment by Michael Nath
No-holds-barred assault on the corruption at the core of British society
BEAUTIFULLY VULGAR: Michael Nath
MARIA DUARTE, SCOTT ALSWORTH, ANDY HEDGECOCK and ANGUS REID review The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford, Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway, Time and Water, and Strictly Ballroom
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IT’S a sure sign that we live in corrupt times that an author as accomplished as Michael Nath is not better known.
Fittingly, his third novel The Treatment focuses on the coruscating influence of corruption on communities, individuals and justice, both of the legal and natural varieties.
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