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The blooding of Jack Absolute / C.C. Humphreys.

by Humphreys, C. C. (Chris C.)

McArthur, 2004.

Anglo-French War, 1755-1763 -- Fiction.

London (England) -- Fiction.

Great Britain -- History, Military -- 18th century -- Fiction.

9781552784532 (trade pbk.)

1552784533 (trade pbk.)

311 p. : map ; 23 cm.

"The brilliant prequel to: "Jack Absolute"--Cover.

"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 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... as well as a dozen things to do with a dead bear. 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."--Goodreads.

Historical fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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