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Jack Absolute

The 007 of the 1770s

C.C. Humphreys

The brilliant first outing for a new kind of war hero.

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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.

 


'Humphreys has turned a penchant for swashbuckling into writing historical fiction. ****'

WESTERN DAILY PRESS

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Jack Absolute-The 007 of the 1770s

Buy Jack Absolute from Amazon
£9.99
Hardback
320 pages
216 x 138 mm
ISBN-10: 0752857037
ISBN-13: 9780752857039
Publication: January 2004
'jack absolute' is also available in paperback format
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