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The Blooding of Jack Absolute

The Blooding of Jack Absolute

by C . C . Humphreys (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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Synopsis

London 1759 and Jack's life is easy. A scholar at Westminster School, a master with cricket bat or billiard cue, the leader of a gang of bucks about the Town, he has both a girl he worships...and a courtesan teaching him the more basic arts of love. Yet he plans to give up all carousing, sit the examinations for Cambridge, find a career in any field he chooses. If he can just stay out of trouble for one night...From the billiard halls and brothels of London to a clash of Empires on the Plains of Abraham, Jack's life is forever altered by the tragedies of that night. Through duels, battles, frantic escapes and a brutal winter spent in a cave in Canada, the schoolboy will vanish, and a man appear. But first he must learn to kill. To come of age, Jack Absolute must be blooded.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 400
 Edition: Open Market Ed
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 07 Jul 2005
ISBN 10: 0752865285
ISBN 13: 9780752865287
Book Overview: JACK ABSOLUTE was a substantial success. Both brilliantly reviewed and commercially popular, it marked the beginning of a brand new bestselling phenomenon. THE BLOODING OF JACK ABSOLUTE charts Jack's coming-of-age, combining emotional power, humour and non-stop action. C. C. Humphreys is attracting more and more media attention, and has received terrific reviews: 'Jack escapes death more often than James Bond in his attempt to find the traitor in the King's ranks ... an exciting romp' Sunday Telegraph. 'C. C. Humphreys excels as ever in throat-in-the-mouth action and knows instinctively how to keep a reader pasted to the page ... to my mind Bernard Cornwell is good but Humphreys is better' Historical Novels Review. 'A magnificent extravaganza of a book ... A marvellous feat of imagination' Good Book Guide. 'Thrilling, funny, well-researched and at times painfully poignant' Independent on Sunday. Humphreys' first novel, THE FRENCH EXECUTIONER, is in film pre-production.

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.