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Tuesday 9 May 2023

ABSOLUTE HONOUR - Book review

 


C.C. Humphries’ third Jack Absolute novel, Absolute Honour, was published as a hardback and a paperback in 2006. To date, sadly, it is the last book of his adventures.

It’s April 1761 and Jack is in Rhode Island, about to board ship for England. He is instrumental in rescuing an Irish Grenadier, Red Hugh McClune from a mob, saving his life. Hugh is a rumbustious fellow, larger than life and seems a firm friend.  The voyage is not uneventful, whether its mutiny and attacks by the French to enliven their days.

Finally, ending up in Bath, Jack is smitten by Hugh’s beautiful cousin, Laetitia. Complications arise, however, part farce, part suspense, that get in the way of true love. In due course Jack finds himself employed as a spy in Rome, to infiltrate the Jacobites living and plotting there. But it doesn’t end here, for he is soon fighting the Spanish in the storming of Valencia de Alcántara…

There’s plenty of sailing ship lore, sword-fights, footpads, ambushes and betrayal to keep the pages turning. Readers of C.S. Forester and Bernard Cornwell will certainly appreciate these books.

A triumph and a worthy successor to Jack’s previous two outings.


See also WRITEALOT: THE BLOODING OF JACK ABSOLUTE - Book review (nik-writealot.blogspot.com)

and:

WRITEALOT: FFB - Jack Absolute - a new historical hero (nik-writealot.blogspot.com)

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