Book description
Elizabethan London: a teeming city of traders and thieves, courtiers
and preachers, riff-raff and quality, cut-throats - and demons. When
scrunty Jack the 'Judicious Nipper' picks the wrong pocket at the
Globe Theatre, he finds himself mixed up in an altogether more
dangerous London than he could have imagined.
An outbreak of devil-worship has led to a wave of anti-witch fervor
whipped up by the Elect, a mysterious group of Puritans recognizable
by their red-stained right hands. Rumour has it that their leader, the
charismatic Nicholas Webb, wants to purge the city entirely and build
a New Jerusalem. Jack has his own reason for hating him: he watched
Nicholas kill his mother.
Helped by Beth Sharkwell the Thief Princess of Lambeth, Kit Morely
the Intelligencer and Dr Dee the Queen's Wizard, Jack pits himself
against Webb's Puritans. But this is no straightforward struggle - for
ever since his first encounter with Webb, there has been something
wrong with Jack's vision. He keeps seeing things. Demons.
Black Arts is the first in a series of thrilling time-travel
adventures, each bringing the past to glorious life, as Jack and his
companions hurtle from one epic struggle to the next.
Andrew Prentice and Jonathan Weil met at school where they edited the
school magazine together.
Black Arts
is their first book.
