The No1 Ethical retailer for Books, CD’s, DVD’s & Games
30 Day Refund Guarantee

Jack Absolute: The 007 of the 1770s

Jack Absolute: The 007 of the 1770s

by C . C . Humphreys (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 2004

    $6.05
Synopsis

In 1777, Jack Absolute is famous ...as the dashing lover in Sheridan's famous comedy THE RIVALS. However, this notoriety comes as something of a shock to the REAL Jack Absolute when he disembarks at Portsmouth after four months at sea, and seven years in India...Thus we meet the dashing Mister Absolute - rogue, duellist, charmer and Captain in the Light Dragoons. He is everything that Sharpe is not, he is both the epitome of the English gentleman and his nemesis. He leaves behind him a trail of cuckolded husbands, excited lovers and dead bodies...In the War of Independence, Jack has to leave London in a hurry after a duel goes hideously wrong. But he soon finds himself in a fight for his life in the colonies.

$3.35

Save:$9.57 (74%)

Quantity

Temporarily out of stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: paperback / softback
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 15 Jan 2004
ISBN 10: 0752857045
ISBN 13: 9780752857046
Book Overview: THE FRENCH EXECUTIONER has been a remarkable success considering its place on the list. 6,000+ trade paperback copies to Canada, 4,250 sold through in the UK (now out of stock) and already a 30,000 copy order for the paperback in Canada. Chris writes with a style unlike anyone else's on our list. Fast-paced and confident with interesting and powerful characters, his writing has extremely strong potential. Jack Absolute has the makings of a wonderful character. Suave, sophisticated but possessing an acute sense of humour, I believe that he can appeal to many different readers.

Author Bio
C.C. Humphreys was born in Toronto, Canada, and grew up in Los Angeles and London. A third-generation actor and writer on both sides of his family, he returned to Canada in the nineties and there his writing career began. He won the inaugural playwriting competition of the New Play Centre, Vancouver with his first play, 'A Cage Without Bars' which was produced in Vancouver and London. He was a schoolboy fencing champion, became a fight choreographer and thus turned his love of swashbuckling towards historical fiction. He is married and lives in Finchley, North London.