The
title of the book may not provide much clue as to the substance it is made of,
but it is both evocative and provocative in more respects than one. The
underlying suspense does not take long to disentangle itself. The reader soon
discovers the thick layers that smother justice in a Federal Court in
Washington
State
as he follows the author through the dark, tortuous and tortious corridors of
the American Judicial System which affords the rich myriad opportunities to
escape through its backdoor.
First
American Title to Injustice is the true story of one single man’s fight
for justice in a jungle which perpetuates the theory of survival, not of the
fittest, but of the filthiest. It is the story of the author who, like David,
stands alone in an arena of giants ready to make a mouthful of him. David, at
least, had only one Goliath to face.
Louis
Leclézio has invested all his faith, hope and bitterness in this revealing
book which beats all attempts at fiction writing. This work is a penetrating
cri de coeur which reaches out to the reader and touches the innermost
recesses of his heart.
Having
laid bare the sham, the hypocrisy and the double-dealings of a spurious
justice à l’Américaine, the author expresses his faith in the Justice of
the Above, knowing that up there the first will be last and the last will be
first.
Or
could it be that American Justice per se is not all that loathsome? Is it not
rather the men in black who are entrusted to administer it who make a mockery
of it?
First
American Title to Injustice is edifying, vindicating. It makes compelling
reading… at one sitting.
Bhishmadev
Seebaluck
August
2006
