Book description
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. C. C. Humphreys was born in Toronto and grew up in Los
Angeles and London. A third generation actor and writer on both sides of
his family, he is married and lives on Salt Spring Island, Canada. www.
cchumphreys. com
