C. C. Humphreys

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The Birth of Jack Absolute (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Diana Gabaldon calls Jack Absolute:

'An Absolute delight! One of the most appealing military gentlemen ever to wear a sword.'

Herein read about the extraordinary circmstances of Jack's birth. Of his mother's peril in the London theatre and of his father's solo cavalry charge in Germany that earned him the title 'Mad Jamie'.

'C.C. Humphreys has created the finest series of historical novels since Patrick O'Brian.' Good Book Guide UK

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Autor

Chris (C.C.) Humphreys has played Hamlet in Calgary, a gladiator in Tunisia, waltzed in London's West End, conned the landlord of the Rovers Return in Coronation Street, commanded a starfleet in Andromeda, voiced Salem the cat in the original Sabrina, and is a dead immortal in Highlander. He has written eleven adult novels including The French Executioner, runner-up for the CWA Steel Dagger for Thrillers; Chasing the Wind; The Jack Absolute Trilogy; Vlad The Last Confession; A Place Called Armageddon and Shakespeare's Rebel which he adapted into a play and which premiered at Bard on the Beach, Vancouver, in 2015. Plague won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel in Canada in 2015. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. He is now writing epic fantasy with the Immortals' Blood Trilogy, for Gollancz. The first book, Smoke in the Glass was published in 2019 and The Coming of the Dark was published September 2020. He is also publishing his other new fantasy series, The Tapestry Trilogy, beginning in August 2020 with 'The Hunt of the Unicorn'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: C. C. Humphreys
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781999461614
• Artikelnr.: 63273266