num_pages: 311
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Blooding of Jack Absolute
titlecomplete: The Blooding of Jack Absolute (Jack Absolute #2)
genres: Adventure, British Literature, Historical, Adult, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Canada
ratings_count: 440
series: Jack Absolute
publisher: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press