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  Karma Lawyer

  Courage and Love

  Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon

  BewleyBooks

  Karma Lawyer - Courage and Love

  First published in 2019

  By BewleyBooks.com

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  © Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon 2019

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  of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988

  This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which is it published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

  This is a work of fiction. The expressions contained within this book may not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher.

  Cover design by Eyenegho D. John, Graphic Designer

  ISBN: Digital: 978-1-909426-51-1

  ISBN: Paperback: 978-1-909426-52-8

  ISBN: Hardback: 978-1-909426-53-5

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  Advance Praise for

  Karma Lawyer

  “Karma Lawyer magnificently transcends literary genres. Raymond Chandler meets Albert Einstein, Robert Johnson riffs with Elvis. The pairings of the popular and the arcane are many and echo throughout the book, both in the chapter headings, and eclectic references to such as fractals and electro-magnetic energy within the work itself. But always in the foreground are the triumphs and very real dilemmas of our anti-hero, Maitland Fairweather. This balancing act between fact and fiction succeeds by the skin of its teeth because it ultimately provides a rich and rewarding read. On one level it is a novel but on the other it is a vehicle of ideas. Big, life changing ideas. A book that involves us not only in the karma of its anti-hero, but also the karma of our planet. The consequences of the narrative are alternatively personal and geopolitical. We neglect both at our peril. Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon cannot be accused of hiding his light under a bushel. So be illuminated. Read this book.”

  Alistair Findlay, Actor

  I found this book very funny. Nigel’s prose has a way of gliding over cruel acts to make them bearable to read and, in the end, I actually liked his hero, Maitland Fairweather, which came as a surprise to me. He is a likeable narcissist.

  Deborah Shorrocks, Psychotherapist

  “I think the story is great. It’s what makes the book.”

  Brendan Hayes, Martial Arts Instructor

  “I found this novel gripping and intriguing.”

  Lois Kleffman, Editor

  “Karma Lawyer is a darkly mysterious and comic book, cut through with unexpected twists and turns. It never failed to surprise and delight me. Quality penmanship again from this author.”

  Vincent Prochard, Physicist

  “Karma Lawyer is a most engaging novel. I see Maitland as a total psychopath. I know the author tried to redeem him, but that first impression stuck with me. Without the darkness, there would be no contrast. We would never be challenged or tested. It's only in combat that one learns how to fight.”

  Mary Thomas

  “Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon apparently exists in a Space-Time of his own creation which is wonderfully expounded upon in his many adventures and novels, either realized, created or dreamt, and to read his words is to join in his vast knowledge and unique awareness. Karma Lawyer is no exception and another mind-bending pleasure. WARNING: Before reading, clear your mind of anything you think you know or have learned and be sitting or lying down to avoid becoming dizzy and falling and hurting yourself.”

  Pasquale Falbo, US Air Force Instructor Pilot

  “Karma Lawyer is a very disturbing story that throws a spotlight on the whole human experience, asking searching questions of us all. For example, are we an amalgam of good and evil, oscillating between two extremes, held together by the glue of ‘so-called’ ethics and rules? Or have we moved so far away from the centre ground that we are faced with a stark choice: either to make a pact with the devil or to surrender to God?

  “Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon’s latest novel features the rich and successful criminal lawyer, Maitland Fairweather, who is shocked to discover that his wife, Sarah, is cheating on him. Despite his deep love for her, he cannot cope with her betrayal and decides to kill her. He gets hold of a gun, but when he realises he can’t go through with it, he hires a hit squad to kill her. Unconcerned by her subsequent murder, he maintains an innocent façade, convincing both the police and his wife’s parents of his sincere shock and grief yet continues to live his life as if nothing has happened. Maitland’s brilliance in court as a defence lawyer has prepared him well for an acting career. And who better than a criminal lawyer to use crime to his advantage?

  “Maitland’s ability to enjoy his life to the full so soon after his wife’s disappearance doesn’t escape the eyes of the Law, and the detective in charge of the case is suspicious. But Maitland doesn’t care; he’s too busy fighting cases and entertaining new clients like Mary, a scientist whose company manufactures deadly scalar-electromagnetic weapons – weapons so devastating they could destroy the world – and he eventually falls in love with her. He is her saviour, and she trusts him. But he never shows his bad side or his mania for control, preferring to share his Utopian vision and spiritual revelations with Mary with the help of hallucinogenics.

  “Despite his evil streak, Maitland does have a conscience. He cares for the people around him. He’s a philosopher and a believer too, aware of his own human frailties and inadequacies. But when one of the hit squad he hired to kill his wife blackmails him and demands money, he reverts to type and personally arranges her death. There is no remorse. It’s as if he’s engaged in a personal crusade to relieve the world of bad people – especially those that resort to betrayal or greed. He is providing a service to mankind; morality doesn’t come into it.

  “Knowing that one day he will eventually be caught and tried for murder, Maitland prepares for his anticipated incarceration by adopting the personality of Adolph Hitler. By morphing into the personality of a psychopath, Maitland hopes that the forces of law and order will take pity on him and send him to a mental hospital rather than prison. But it is soon clear that the foul language that emerges from his lips is also his own. When evil is faced with evil only evil can result.

  “Nigel has written a tragedy but at heart it’s a comedy. Despite its dark bleakness the author manages to leave the reader feeling hopeful of finding love and an end to suffering.

  “I fully recommend reading Karma Lawyer. It will shock and amaze you in equal proportions. I only hope that I never meet people like Maitland in my life and that they remain figments of the author’s imagination.”

  Paul Sinclair, Author of Fatal Consequences and Bay of Killers

  Ananda Moi Ma’s Lightning Bolt

  What is ordinarily called love is not Prema, true love, but Moha, attraction through delusion. Prema cannot exist between individuals. People say, my love for such and such a person is true love and not worldly love. But they are deceiving themselves. Love for what is mortal is invariably Moha and it leads to death. Have you not noticed how when you find it impossible to get the object of your love you either wish to kill it or to die yourself?

  Contents

  Acknowledgements

  Introduction

  1 Cry Me A River

  2 Romantic Love

  3 Evil

  4 Love is Blind

  5 Sarah

  6 Maitland

  7 Scalar ElectroMagnetic Industries r />
  8 The Law of Karma

  9 Cool Water

  10 Forgetting

  11 I’m Gonna Walk Before They Make Me Run

  12 A Love Divine

  13 Unconditional Love

  14 Al Gore’s Rhythm

  15 Freedom

  16 The Jonny Chakra Big Band

  17 Mary, Mary, Quite Quantrary

  18 We Are The Hollow Men

  19 What Is Mine?

  20 Taking From The Past And Giving To The Future

  21 Marie-Anne Toilette

  22 OMDB

  23 Psychedelicatessen

  24 Hey, Mister Tangerine Man

  25 High Noon

  26 If Only Dogs Ruled The World

  27 Closing In

  28 Facial Discrimination

  29 A Glimpse Of Higher Planes

  30 The Sound of Creation

  31 The Divine Demon

  32 Chilled And Frozen Friendships

  33 Karma

  34 A Dream Called Hope

  35 Save My Soul From Sin

  36 We Kept On Keepin’ On

  37 The Taj Mahal

  38 The Dealer And The Dealt

  39 Carpe Diem

  40 Angina Vagina

  41 Art For Art’s Sake

  42 Fly Like An Eagle

  43 War And Peace

  44 Post Tenebras Spero Lucem

  45 The Inexorable Law Of Karma

  46 When The Knitting Had To Stop

  Notes

  About the Author

  Dedication

  Mary Dulleston

  Omrita Chatterji

  Gorgie Dove

  Acknowledgements

  Steve Jones - Coral

  Mike ‘Picasso’ Townesend – Artist

  Jonathan Kerr – Physicist

  Professor Reginald T Cahill – Physicist

  Nexus – The Alternative News Magazine

  Project Censored/Media Freedom Foundation

  Jim Grapek

  Baxter Dmitry in News World

  Adolf Hitler – Mein Kampf

  Alexander Waugh – The House of Wittgenstein

  Cover design by Eyenegho D. John, Graphic Designer

  Translations of Adolf Hitler’s writings quoted by Maitland Fairweather are on pages 179-181

  I would like to thank my wife Jenny and my children Daisy and Gabriel for their enduring love and support through thick and thin. I wrote most of this book with my beautiful dog, Bella, at my side - always there for me.

  I am also indebted to my editor, Mary Thomas, for her dedication and perseverance and to my publisher, Kaye Bewley, whose enthusiasm and commitment has never waned.

  Introduction

  I do not know to what extent I should have accepted writing an introduction to Karma Lawyer. I feel somewhat daunted by the task of having to introduce such a unique work of literary art, yet having accepted the charge, I will carry it out after overcoming an inner resistance. I owe so much to the author by way of personal inspiration that it is an honour and a privilege to encourage you, the reader, to grasp this opportunity of discovering the illuminating abstractions of instinctive writing presented here by Nigel. Most of the time he did not know himself what was going to happen in the storyline, as he has often told me. That part was turned over to a process of unconscious cerebration. What is perhaps the book’s essential part, he entrusts to instinct. If he was not a born writer, he could never have brought his dramatic works to realisation in this way. His unique literary style and finely tuned perception are given ever new expression in Karma Lawyer. Poetry, laughter and tears are the ingredients of his dramatic invention.

  The main protagonist in the novel is the antihero, Maitland Fairweather. He is a narcissistic, manipulative lawyer trying to redeem his conscience and his past. Falling in love with a beautiful, bona fide heroine and performing meritorious deeds of valour and compassion bring only temporary relief, failing to absolve the inner darkness of his psyche which is so full of fury and guilt. Paradoxically, the atoning acts of righteous deeds and his newly found love only serve to accentuate the agony and powerlessness he is eventually forced to face. They become as flowers and roses lining the road to death. While the inner struggle between denial and guilt gathers momentum challenging him to face himself, he chooses instead to completely evade facing reality. He disassociates and in doing so creates an inner conflict and unbearable tension that in turn creates a psychological Gordian Knot which the reader is inevitably drawn into like a vortex.

  The moments of the novel's greatest dramatic intensity are crowned with quotes like heirlooms from beyond and the ordinariness of some of the images at the end of the chapters become miraculous abstractions. By way of contrast and surprise there is also humour to offset the sense of foreboding that propels one along the precipice of suspense. The reader may very well find themselves laughing out loud in places. In the final analysis, the disturbing conundrum of evil presented here compels the reader to explore the deceptive nature of desire and fear which set the trap and provide the plot. Human frailty is laid bare.

  The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. Omar Khayyám

  Within the framework of contradictory polarities, the stark reality of the grand finale emerges from the ricochet of events like an arrow released that finds its mark with unerring accuracy. It cannot be turned back once it has left the bow.

  To conclude, Frederico Garcia Lorca in his play, 'Blood Wedding' presents the same concept of human fatality lending it poetic form:

  With a knife

  with a little knife,

  on their appointed day,

  between two and three,

  these two men killed each other for love.

  With a knife,

  with a tiny knife

  that barely fits the hand,

  but that slides in clean

  through the astonished flesh

  and stops at the place

  where trembles, enmeshed,

  the dark root of scream.

  A tiny knife

  that barely fits the hand

  fish without scales, without river,

  so that on their appointed day, between two and three,

  with this knife

  two men are left stiff

  with their lips turning yellow.

  Lorca ~ Blood Wedding

  Countess de La Torre

  1 Cry Me A River

  London 2018

  Now you say you're lonely.

  You cry the whole night through.

  Well you can cry me a river,

  Cry me a river,

  I cried a river over you.

  Arthur Hamilton

  My oldest friend from prep school days, Georgie Dove, forwarded me an email. It was from another friend of ours, the journalist St. John Bradshaw. This is what it said:

  Peter Frederiksen was arrested in September after his wife, Anna Matseliso Molise, called police to report that he had cut off her genitalia after illicitly drugging her one night. Molise was shot and killed as she left her house last month. She was due in court to testify against Frederiksen and was the state’s key witness in the case. 21 pieces of severed female vaginas were found in his freezer. It’s not known yet whether he took the body parts from his victims when they were alive or dead, but he did keep detailed records of the mutilations and what parts belonged to whom.

  Georgie was CEO at the London office of BUPharma, the international pharmaceutical corporation. Georgie was there because, as he said, BUPharma was rich, powerful and corrupt.

  I wasn’t altogether sure why Georgie had forwarded the email to me, but I knew St. John took an interest in these extreme events. The story did however give me food for thought and further confused me about the place of love (or misguided love) in life.

  One morning I set off to work in my metallic blue/black Bugatti Chiron.[1] It was the ‘quintessent
ial ultimate super sports car: ultra-modern, incredibly fast, agile and powerful with a stylistically demanding design and the highest possible levels of comfort,’ said Wolfgang Dürheimer the President of Bugatti Automobiles. It had cost me £1,700,000 and I loved it. Of course, it always turned a few heads, but that wasn’t the point. It was for me. Just for me.

  I pulled into the side of the road. On impulse I dialled Georgie’s mobile. I waited, tapping my fingers on the steering wheel. Georgie took the call.

  “Hi. It’s me.”

  “…I’m OK. Thanks...”

  “…Yup. I have something to ask you… Something... uh… unusual…”

  “…Yes?”

  “…I want you to get something for me…”

  “…What?”

  “…A gun, a handgun – somethin’ small but powerful…”

  “…Why?”

  “…Can’t tell you. Better you don’t know, old boy.”

  “…Because…”

  “…Look, Georgie, if you don’t wanna help then fuckin’ don’t…”

  “…OK, OK. On loan.”

  “…When?”

  “…A week.”

  “…Why so long?”

  “…Alright. Two days.”

  “…That’s better.”

  2 Romantic Love

  What Is This Thing Called Love?

  Cole Porter, 1929

  My name is Maitland Fairweather and I was the baddest and meanest man the world had ever seen. I was also senior partner in the law firm Whitlock, Fetlock and Fairweather. I was a rich man, well-built and good looking with dark wavy hair and a strong chin. I was 46 when this strange adventure occurred. I was a brilliant, successful lawyer, ruthless, amoral, extremely well paid and I was suffering. After just one year of marriage Sarah, my wife, had left me for another poorer and younger man called Robin Makepeace. Makepeace and Fairweather indeed – huh!