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The Lost Order

Steve Berry

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The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in...

Taco Cleanse

Wes Allison, Stephanie Bogdanich, Molly R. Frisinger and Jessica Morris

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Tired of the same old cleanse? Instead of feeling rejuvenated are you feeling depleted, anxious, and...

The Big Red Book of Tomatoes

Lindsey Bareham

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Ever been confronted by a couple of unpromising-looking tomatoes and some of yesterday's bread, with...

Contested Spaces of Early America

Juliana Barr and Edward Countryman

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Colonial America stretched from Quebec to Buenos Aires and from the Atlantic littoral to the Pacific...

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May 31, 2021

Fugitive

Paul Fraser Collard | 2021 | Fiction & Poetry

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Entry number 9 in Paul Fraser Collard's Jack Lark series, this is an entry which - speaking personally - I very much found could be split into two main parts: the first part of the novel primarily concerns itself with the Victorian pursuit of 'slumming' (where rich toffs paid good money to see how their poorer counterparts lived in the slums and tenements of London), and the second with the Abyssinian campaign against the mad 'Gorilla King' (in modern day Ethiopia, I believe)

I'd heard, and even knew a bit, about the former. The latter? Sad to say, not so much.

So, for my part, a little new knowledge is a good thing!

As the novel begins, Jack Lark is back in England after his exploits in America (during the Civil War) and Mexico of the previous entries; back where - I feel - he belongs (ummm, speaking internationally, that is, rather than his precise circumstances!) and running Victorian slumming 'tours' (for want of a better word) for the rich who have more money than sense!

I don't *think* I'm giving anything away when I say that one such tour inevitably goes wrong, leading Jack - and a few companions - to flee the country, travelling to Ethiopia to join the expedition against the Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia, more concerned with what they can purloin along the way than the rights and wrongs of the situation that led to the campaign in the first place!

All in all, another solid entry in the series: I'm looking forward to where Jack ends up next!