The Blooding of Jack Absolute

Chris Humphreys

The brilliant prequel to JACK ABSOLUTE...

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.