Mass Market Paperback, 377 pages
English language
Published March 8, 2006 by HarperTorch.
A chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe -- London street urchin-turned-legendary swashbuckling adventurer -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox. . . and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance. --back cover
A chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe -- London street urchin-turned-legendary swashbuckling adventurer -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox. . . and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance. --back cover
Subjects
- Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 -- Fiction.
- Kings and rulers -- Succession -- Fiction.
- Scientists -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
- Counterfeiters -- Fiction.
- Criminals -- Fiction.
- Great Britain -- History -- Anne, 1702-1714 -- Fiction.