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London: November. Terrorists blow up the Queen's coach outside Parliament. The Queen escapes, but five people are killed, and forty others badly hurt - ordinary, innocent people, like Alan Cole, the Queen's coachman, who loses his leg in the bombing. And for Alan and his daughter Jane there is more terror to come, in the search for the truth behind the bombing. Will the terrorists be caught and brought to justice? But what kind of justice? What can give Alan Cole his leg back, or give life back to people who have been blown to pieces by a bomb?

80 pages, Paperback

First published August 17, 2000

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Tim Vicary

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Tim Vicary is an author and a recently retired university teacher from the university of York, England. His legal thrillers about a tough British barrister, Sarah Newby, have been compared to the works of John Grisham and Scott Turow. The second book in the series, A Fatal Verdict, was awarded a B.R.A.G Medallion for an outstanding independent novel, and the third book, Bold Counsel, was awarded the Awesome Indies Seal of Excellence. He is currently writing a fourth book in the series, entitled Broken Alibi.

His four historical novels have also won praise. Nobody's Slave, a novel about the Elizabethan slave trade, won first prize in the young adult category of the Kindle Book awards 2014. His three other historical novels, Cat & Mouse, The Blood Upon the Rose, and The Monmouth Summer, are all available individually or as a boxed set of three, entitled Women of Courage.

Tim has also written about twenty much shorter books, graded readers for foreign learners of English, published by Oxford University Press. In 2010 and 2011 two of these - Titanic and The Everest Story - were each the winners in their category for the Language Learner Literature Award for the Extensive Reading Foundation.

Tim lives in the English countryside, near York. When he's not writing he likes horse-riding, cycling, and swimming.

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December 7, 2020
The book justice is about an attack bye terrorists on the queen’s coach outside parliament. There were lots of people that were waiting outside to see the queen. Jane was one of them. Jane is the daughter of Alan Cole, and he is one of the queen’s coaches. Everyone dove to the ground and it was very quiet.
A lot of people were waiting and suddenly they heard a bang, and everyone was on the ground.

Jane got up and saw her daddy lying under the horse he was sitting on. Jane walked up to him and tried to help him. After a while she managed to get him from under the horse and he was taken to hospital by ambulance. After a few days, Jane was allowed to visit her father in the hospital, but he comes with bad news. He told her that he had to have his leg amputated because it had died on him from the fall of the horse. But that was not the worst news. He also tells her that he met a new woman and that Jane should go see her and tell her he had an accident. That night, Jane went to the house of the woman her father had met and rang the bell, no one opened it. A few minutes later the neighbor came by and she told Jane that the woman had already moved with a man for a few weeks. Jan was of course very angry and returned home. When she returned home she heard two people at her house, the people broke in and trapped her on a chair with a towel around her eyes. Will Jane be released alive? And who are the terrorists that want to kill the queen? You will find out when you read this book.

I read this book and it is definitely recommended. What I like about the book is that it is always exciting: there is never a moment that you think it is getting boring. A second positive point is that it is put in two perspectives. First Jane speaks and her world is described and then Alan's world is described, making the book very clear.
Then the last positive thing is that it has a really exciting ending that makes you really want to keep reading it.

The final conclusion is that it is a very nice and exciting book that you should definitely read.
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November 2, 2019
The book is about an attack that had happened when the Queen, Prince Charles and the Duke of Edinburgh got out of the coach witch they’ve been transported with. There was a huge crowd watching the queen arriving at the parliament. There were a lot of press and filming crews filming the event.

A girl named Jane was watching her father, who was the driver of the coach the Queen sat in, arriving at the parliament when a women with red-brown hair wanted to pass her. She pushed Jane aside. She had a black camera in her hand. But when the women passed Jane, there was a loud noise. Everyone fell onto the ground. People were screaming and crying. When jane got up and got to look at what was happening, she noticed there was a lot of blood and people laying on the ground. She looked at the coach where her dad was and he was gone. He was crushed between one of the horses and the street. Because of the horse laying on his leg and trying to get up but falling back down because there was a piece of one leg missing, Jane’s dad’s leg was broken in forty places. His leg had to be amputated.

When Jane’s dad was in the hospital for recovery, he said Jane needed to post a letter for him to a women he had been seeing. But there was something off with that women and because of that Jane got in trouble. But to know what happened to Jane, you need to read the book of course.
In general the book is a romantic drama about a terrorist attack an 2 innocent people who were in the wrong place with wrong people.

At first I didn’t like the book but when I got to the more scary parts it got a lot more fun to read. I don’t like to read but when there is a scary, yet exciting part, I can’t stop reading. It’s like you’re really into the character and you feel like as if you’re in the story.
I loved the ending because I didn’t expect it. I thought something else would happen so that’s exiting about it.

It’s easy to read and it has some lovely pictures in it which may clarify certain moments in the book.

I would definitely recommend this book to other students or people in general. It doesn’t have that many pages so even for someone who doesn’t like to read, it would be a great fit.
1 review
October 12, 2019

I have read the book Justice from Tim Vicary and I am going to say my personal thought about the book.

First About the cover of the book, at my opinion it looks really boring and basic, just a tittle and an image of a police. So I wouldn’t choose the book to read for fun (only based on the cover).

Than about the story. I’ts a book about terrorism. The terrorists tried to blow up the Quin’s coach, but she escaped. They said something about many dead bodies and that Jane’s dad lost his leg because there was a horse on his leg. Jane’s dad has found a new love, but Jane knows immediately that there was something wrong with her and she was right. She got kidnapped by her dad’s new love, Anna. Jane could escape and Anna was run over by a train.
So the story was exiting, but it was really complicated at my opinion. There were many words I didn’t know and because of that it was really hard to understand te story. I also had effort with the personages, I was often confused about who the daughter was from the man that lost his leg. But the genre of the book is totally my thing, I love realistic books and this was realistic for sure.
The writing style was fine, but maybe a little bit small.

Conclusion: I wouldn’t recommend the book because it was not that good. The book is too little and because of that the story was kind of incomplete. I think if I understood more in the book that I would like it more, because now it was not really fun to read.

This was my opinion about the book.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
1 review1 follower
March 6, 2018
Justice is a book that deals with terrorism. The terrorists have laid a bomb on the parliament with the intention of killing the Queen, but she has escaped. There are five people died when the bomb went off and many wounded. the coach Alan Cole of the Queen has lost his leg by the bomb. His daughter jane wants to find out who did this attack, but hit themselves in danger because of this. Jane's father told Jane about Anna. This girl kidnaps jane later and she learns what she really is. She also learns that she is not the friendly girl that her father thought she was. Jane can finally escape after she has thrown hot coffee in Kev's face. she also takes the gun from him and can get away. Jane killed Kev with the gun and runs away from Anna. Anna comes behind Jane. Jane can finally escape and enters a dark tunnel. Jane sees Anna in the hole with a gun in her hand. At that moment a fast train is coming to jane. Anna is eventually run over by the train.

The good thing about the book is that there are not too many difficult words. You could understand what it was about. What was bad about the book is the end. I didn’t like the ending very well. I expected a better ending. I would recommend it, because it was a good story. It was also exciting at times. I would only recommend it to people who like to read books about terrorism.
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November 21, 2021
Justice is a book that deals with terrorism. The terrorists have laid a bomb on the parliament with the intention of killing the Queen, but she has escaped. There are five people died when the bomb went off and many wounded. the coach Alan Cole of the Queen has lost his leg by the bomb. His daughter jane wants to find out who did this attack, but hit themselves in danger because of this. Jane's father told Jane about Anna. This girl kidnaps jane later and she learns what she really is. She also learns that she is not the friendly girl that her father thought she was. Jane can finally escape after she has thrown hot coffee in Kev's face. she also takes the gun from him and can get away. Jane killed Kev with the gun and runs away from Anna. Anna comes behind Jane. Jane can finally escape and enters a dark tunnel. Jane sees Anna in the hole with a gun in her hand. At that moment a fast train is coming to jane. Anna is eventually run over by the train.
9 reviews
November 21, 2021
the story is good and I think the Author him self deserve 5 stars but not for this book, the good thing that the author is perfectly knows how to impress us especially in the end of the story.

about the title "Justice" and as JANE said "there is some justice" , yes this true in this life but the complete justice will be in the here after at the judgment day :
" We will cast them into the Fire. Whenever their skin is burnt completely, We will replace it so they will ˹constantly˺ taste the punishment. Indeed, Allah is Almighty, All-Wise."
An-NISA, VERSE 56.



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182 reviews12 followers
May 2, 2024
Reading for my english class. It was boring, predictable, full of non-sense dilemmas and empty of any kind of criticism. Even the writing didn't bring anything to the conversation.
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23 reviews3 followers
July 1, 2015
1. Oxford level3
2. 07/01=95min
3. terrorists, coach, bomb, kidnapp, kill, gun, train
4.(a) Jane touched the blood on her face. 'Yes. She tried to shoot me but she missed. Then I threw her in front of a train. I killed the other one, too.' She smiled, a strange, shaky smile. 'You said there was no justice in this life, didn't you, Dad? Well, those two terrorists murdered five people, and took away your leg and . . . and now they're dead! So there is some justice, Dad, isn't there? Then her eyes filled with tears, and she sat down, suddenly, on a platform seat. 'That woman hated you, Dad,' she whispered shakily, 'really hated you.'
(b) This paragraoh is the last part of this book. The main character, Jane, killed two terrorists to save herself. Because of that, she was very upset. If what she did to these terrorists is not justice, there are no justice in the world. She did right things. It's all terrorist fault.
5. This book was very easy to read. So I could read it comfortably. I thought she shouldn't blame herself of for killing because killing to save herself is just legitimate self-defense. I hope all terrorists in the world are liquidated in the future.
14 reviews1 follower
December 12, 2012
Oxford, level 3
-time: 90 minutes
-7 words summary: coachman, terrorists, bomb, daughter, kidnapping, love, justice:

1. In this story, the daughter was kidnapped and succeed in escaping from terrorists by herself. Can you do that?
-No. I have no courage to do that. If I were her, I had only to believe my father.

2. Jane killed terrorists, and it was the end story that Jane talked with her father about Justice. If you were a writer, how would you finish this story?
-When I finished reading this story, I wondered if Jane was arrested or not. As I read this story, she do not arrest because her action is JUSTICE. However, I could not kill people even if someone tried to kill me. That's why I want to change this end: Actually, Anna loved her father and tried to help her.

This is interesting story. JUSTICE is difficult to think. I wonder if to kill someone to protect myself is "Justice" or not. However, I was surprised at the end. I did not expect such as this end.
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11 reviews1 follower
June 3, 2014
5/20 20min
5/26 23min
5/27 30min
total 73 min

7-words summary
bomb, terrrorist, lost, kidnapped, gun, subway, alive

most impressive passage: Jane, you are alive! That is all the matter to me. That's all that matter in the world.

I chose this passage because Jane was once kidnapped but she came back alive. Although Jane killed two terrorists who kidnapped her, one of terrorists were lover of Jane's lover, but his daugher came back alive is worth than anyhing for dad. i could imagine that reading through this passage.

my opinion: Before I read this book, I thought this book is difficult because of title of the book. However, the context of the book is very interesting and written in easy English so I could read smoothly. Terrorism is not familier in Japan but there are all around the world. I thought Terrorism just makes people sad and disappointment through this book.
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28 reviews
November 12, 2012
-OXFORD,Level 3
-Time 11/9=10minutes 11/10=10minutes 11/11=25minutes 11/12=20minutes
-7-word summary:bomb-terrorist-justice-guns-coachman-kidnap-tunnel
-Discussion questions
1:If you were kidnapped by someone, how would you feel and what would you do?
A:I am sure to feel horrible! I cannot imagine what I would do to escape from him/her. Maybe I cannot do anything.
2:If you were under the threaten(if you would speak to policeman, your child would be killed), would you speak to police?
A:Maybe I cannot speak to police. I would only follow criminal's request. I would be threaten.

This story has easy vocaburary, so I could read smoothly. While I read this book, I thought how would I do if my child were kidnapped. I felt little fearful.
26 reviews2 followers
July 1, 2015
1. Oxford, level 3
2. 7/1 = 90 min.
3. Jane, big sound, screaming, terrorist, Queen, thieves, bond
4. a: There were bodies everywhere, but no one was moving.
b: It is so dreadful matter. I cannot imagine her feeling and there sight. It is difficult for me to understand why terrorists tried to kill the Queen in order to change the politics.
5. Jane guided two Americans round London. Suddenly, they heard a big sound and screaming in front of Parliament. Jane found bodies lying on the ground. This matter was occurred by some Irish terrorists. They wanted to kill the Queen. After that day, when Jane went home, she met thieves and she was bound. She was involved into non-daily life. I concerned about her after that.

I read from page 1 to page 30.
17 reviews
October 23, 2012
Publisher-Oxford
-Time: 70min.
-7 word summary: ceremony - bomb - father - daughter - his lover - kidnap - threat
-Discussion Question
1. Have you ever seen ceremony like Queen ceremony?
A. I have. I've seen ceremony of Tyunichi Dragoons Parade.
2. If you have a choice that cut off your leg or die, which one do you choice?
A. Probably, I choose to cut off my legs because I can live and use artificial legs.

-Time: 110min(+40min.)
-7word summary: bomb - lover - kidnap - gun - daughter - kill - survive
-Discussion Question
1. Have you ever escape from serious situation ?
A. Actually, I have. I escape when I broke a pane of glass.
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28 reviews4 followers
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December 9, 2014
1. oxford 3rating
2. 11/20 30minutes
11/21 15minutes
11/23 40minutes
3.queen, coach, bomb, terrorists, Anna, happy, call,
4. I don't like the scene that terrorists sought her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
5. The book's story is about assassination. The main character of the book is Jane. Her father has a job to pull the queen of horse-drawn carriage. One day, the horse-drawn explodes. The criminal is his girl friend. She make a good use of his. Jane is kidnapped because she know the secret, but she can run away and come back alive. The book made me thought what is Justice, but I cannot decide what is Justice.
16 reviews1 follower
May 26, 2016
1. Oxford, 3 level
2. 5/15 30min, 5/16 30min, 5/18 20min,
3. bomb, kidnap, tunnel, terrorist, justice, guns, coach
4. The most impressive sentence is "There's no justice in this life.", because I could agree to this passage, but it is sad.
5. This book was interested for me. To kill someone who try to kill me is bad, but, if i were her, I would take same action. So Jane's action is bad, but I can understand it. In this book, "There's no justice in this life", perhaps Jane and her father didn't want to kill. Therefore they have courage. In my life, I'm not familier to the terrorism and I can't understand terrorists' thinking, so I hope the word 'terrorism' will disappear.
Profile Image for Keiichi Yamamoto.
14 reviews
October 11, 2012
Oxford active reading level 3
Time Octover 9th 90 minutes
7words summary terrorists bomb lost legs kidnupping gun shot
1 The main character's mother was died. And the husband felt in love with another woman. If you were the husband child, could you accept this situation?
Yes, I could. It is my father's decision. Maybe he consider about that seriously. I hope!!!lol
2 In this book, many people were killed by terrorists. Have you ever watched someone died?
No, I haven't. Without my grand father's funeral. I hope I don't watch someone died in the future except funerals.
14 reviews2 followers
November 7, 2012
-oxford-level3
-11/2=30minutes,11/6=15minutes,
11/7=30minutes
-7words
Family-horse-terrorists-bomb-love-kill-justice
-Discussion
1.this maincharacter run away from terrorists
by herself,can you run away from them?
No,because I don't have courage,I think she is
a brave man.
2. The maincharacter killed terrorist the last scene, do you think this murder is justice?
Yes, because to protect my body is important!


This book is very interesting, I excited and the last scene was an impact!justice is difficult I think. I recommend this book to everyone.
35 reviews1 follower
October 15, 2014
1 Oxford level 3
2 10/13=20minutes, 10/15=70 minutes
3 terrorists, coach, bomb, killing, artificial legs, kidnap, justice
4 a)"There's no justice in this life, is there?"
b) I really agree with this passage. It is sad there is no justice in this life, and it is true.
5 I like this story, but it is bad to kill someone even if he or she try to kill me. I mean I don't like Jane, however, there is no justice in this life. Jane and her fatehr have great courage. I have never seen acts of terrorism so I afraid of the word, "terrorism."
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38 reviews3 followers
October 24, 2014

1.10/20=80m 10/21=20m
2. oxford level3
3. Coach, explode, leg, girl friend, kidnap, train,gun

4. Alan was a coachman. One day he was carring Queen so his daughter, Jane came
to see it. She found a strange women, then something exploded! Five people died, some people were injured. Unfortunatly, Alan lost his leg... and Jane was kidnapped... Why???

5. I was excited to read it. It's interesting story but I could predict who is criminal.
I like the scene that Jane fighted with Kev(one of criminal)! She was cool!
Profile Image for Hiroki Yasui.
27 reviews3 followers
December 18, 2014
Justice (Oxford Level. 3)
12/17= 90minures

Justice, queen, explosion, coachman, gun, mistake, daughter

" You're alive! That's all that matters to me. That's all that natters in the world. "

The title of this story is Justice, but I didn't know what justice is by reading. In this story, the main character woman kills a man. I have no idea about the difference between justice and evil. But, at least, whatever reasons she has, killing is wrong, not justice. To tell the truth, unfortunately, I couldn't swallow this story.
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42 reviews
December 9, 2012
-Oxford level3
-Time 12/5 40minutes 12/9 15 minutes
-7 word summary terrorists- kill- 5- people- bombing- justice- who
-Discussion question
1. Have you ever had a serious wound?
A. No, I have not. But I have broken my right index finger.
2. If you were caught by terrorists, what would you do first?
A. In my case, I do not make attempts to resist.

Terrorism is often occur in the US.
I think that terrorism is horrible.
Terrorism makes our life terrible.
24 reviews
October 23, 2013

1. OXFORD Level.3

2. 90min 10/23/2013

3. terrorists/Queen/kill/leg/bomb/coach/policeman

4. Q: What do you think of Queen?
A: I think Queen is very beautiful in the country.

5. I think this book is very good. The story of this book is that terrorists blow up the Queen's coach outside Parliament. The Queen escapes but the Queen's coachman lost his leg in the bombing. I thought terror is too terrible.
13 reviews
November 8, 2012
oxford / level 3 / 120 min
ceremony / London / terrorists / parliament / queen / hurt / justice

if it happend terrorism when you travel abroad, what do you do there?
>i will panick, i want to escape from them and i try not to act strang thing.

what do you think about justice?
>i think justice is the fair treatment of every people.
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3 reviews7 followers
May 3, 2013
1. Oxford Bookworms Library; Level 3
2. 5/3 45 minutes
3. justice - terrorist - bomb - blood - die - innocent - leg
4. Have you ever experienced to be almost died?
No, I haven't.
5. I rethink about tero in Boston. Terrorist kill innocent people including a child. We have to consider about it.
9 reviews
May 14, 2014
1:Oxford Lv3
2:5/13=30min 5/14=50min
3:Terrorists,The Queen,Bomb,Justice,coachman,Queen's coach,Alan Cole
4:a:"But there is another kind of justice."
b:Because I think so too.
5:It is long story. Reading this book was hard to me.
12 reviews
May 28, 2022
Bueno para repasar ingles

Para repaso rápido de inglés. Además con Word wise se facilita la lectura. En general entretenida la historia y se puede entender el contexto en su totalidad.
9 reviews
May 7, 2013
1. The Oxford Bookworms Library; Level 3
2. 4/27 = 70 minutes
3.
4.
5. As soon as I finished reading the book, I could not help considering about Boston marathon.
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