# The Blooding of Jack Absolute

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- Book: [The Blooding of Jack Absolute](https://www.bookquiver.com/c-c-humphreys/the-blooding-of-jack-absolute) ([The Blooding of Jack Absolute.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/c-c-humphreys/the-blooding-of-jack-absolute.md))
- Authors: [C. C. Humphreys](https://www.bookquiver.com/c-c-humphreys)
- Publisher: Orion
- ISBN: 978-07-5286-527-0
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2005-11-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The brilliant prequel to JACK ABSOLUTE... 'Jack escapes death more often than James Bond in his attempt to find the traitor in the King's ranks . . . an exciting romp' Sunday Telegraph 'Bernard Cornwell is good but Humphreys is better' Historical Novels Review 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.