The Blooding of Jack Absolute - first UK edition

by C. C. Humphries - signed

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. 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, 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.

Book has green boards with gold printing on the spine. Signed by the author on the title page; a fine, signed first edition.

Jacket is also fine, protected, price-intact at £9.99.