Jane and the Jackal

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Pub Date 28 May 2024 | Archive Date 3 Jul 2024
General Fiction (Adult) | Historical Fiction

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1824. The Darcy family are aboard their yacht, The Pemberley, when Arab corsairs seize it and murder the crew. The Darcys and Jane, their daughter, find refuge first in an Ottoman fort and then at the British consulate in Athens.

The Greeks are rebelling against their hated Turkish overlords. Buccaneers and fortune-hunters flock to Greece, eager for booty. War rages, and the all-appalling, pitiless Odysseus governs Athens. Anarchy, mayhem and Turkish armies threaten Athens. In the chaos, the eye of Odysseus lights on Jane Darcy, who is only twelve.

Meanwhile, Edmund Bertram, the abusive chaplain at the consulate, shamefully mistreats his wife, Fanny. In despair, she begins a tentative romance with a frequent guest of the Consul, the piratical fortune hunter Edward Trelawny. 

Will the six women escape the desperate carnage around them? Will Fanny free herself from the duplicitous tyrant who rules her life? Will young Jane evade the clutches of the merciless impaler who pursues her?

Jane and the Jackal is a fast-moving historical romance revealing the inner strengths and weaknesses of Jane Austen’s heroines in a lawless and brutal world far from the familiar peace of rural England.

1824. The Darcy family are aboard their yacht, The Pemberley, when Arab corsairs seize it and murder the crew. The Darcys and Jane, their daughter, find refuge first in an Ottoman fort and then at...

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Jim Pinnells is a consultant working around the world launching, rescuing, or closing out international projects in many fields. Jim studied literature at Cambridge and finished with a doctorate at Frankfurt University. This grounding in literature and historical research underpins his five novels.

Jim Pinnells is a consultant working around the world launching, rescuing, or closing out international projects in many fields. Jim studied literature at Cambridge and finished with a doctorate at...

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ISBN 9781805148746
PRICE £4.99 (GBP)
PAGES 360

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Pinnells has written a really good book here. The tensions and weight of the world weighs down heavy on the characters and you feel it as a reader too. It think the placing was well and the book was just the right amount of pages to keep readers engaged. This was a good historical fiction book and really brought me into that time and place.

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