Spring Heeled Jack

Spring Heeled Jack

Taschenbuch
3.73

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Beschreibung

It is 1861, and Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces.Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier and dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labour; Libertines oppose restrictive and unjust laws and flood the country with propaganda demanding a society based on beauty and creativity; while The Rakes push the boundaries of human behaviour to the limits with magic, sexuality, drugs and anarchy.Returning from his failed expedition to find the source of the Nile, explorer, linguist, scholar and swordsman Sir Richard Francis Burton finds himself sucked into the perilous depths of this moral and ethical vacuum when the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, employs him as 'King's Spy'.His first mission: to investigate the sexual assaults committed by a weird apparition known as Spring Heeled Jack; to find out why chimney sweeps are being kidnapped by half-man, half-dog creatures; and to discover the whereabouts of his badly injured former friend, John Hanning Speke.Accompanied by the diminutive and pain-loving poet, Algernon Swinburne, Burton's investigations lead him back to one of the defining events of the age: the brutal assassination of Queen Victoria in 1840; and the terrifying possibility that the world he inhabits shouldn't exist at all.

Buchinformationen

Haupt-Genre
Historische Romane
Sub-Genre
N/A
Format
Taschenbuch
Seitenzahl
514
Preis
19.60 €

Beiträge

1
Alle
4

I really enjoyed the whole premise of this book, and loved how cleverly the timeline of events was laid out. The characters and plot are well thought out and entertaining. I couldn’t give 5 ⭐️ because it was such a slow burn for me at first, it took me much longer to read than I thought it would. But the second half really sped up and overall I enjoyed the story! Would definitely recommend this for a fun and unique read, especially for history lovers :)

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