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Buy this book on-line HUMPHREYS**, C[HRIS] C: : THE BLOODING OF JACK ABSOLUTE.** [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.ORION,2005. ISBN 0752857053.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's handwritten,black ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping to head of spine/backstrip with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Bright,clean,green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,3-311pp (paginated) includes half-title+title pages,b/w map,Pts 1+2 comprising 11 and 10 chapters+ epilogue respectively and author's historical notes to rear.
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 town,he has both a girl he worships . . .and an older courtesan teaching him the more basic arts of love.Yet he plans to give up all carousing,sit the examinations for Cambridge and find a career in any field he chooses.All he has to do is stay out of trouble for one more night . . .
Which is,of course,impossible.
From the taverns and brothels of London to a clash of Empires on the battlefield of Quebec, Jack's life is forever altered by the tragedies of that night.Tragedies brought about by the man he has hated since birth,his cousin,Craster. Through duels,battles,frantic escapes and a brutal winter,Jack learns the truth of his father's words.A year on,the schoolboy will vanish,a man appear.
But first he must learn to kill.To come of age,Jack Absolute must be blooded.
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