C. C. Humphreys

It is London, 1759, and young Jack Absolute’s life changes for ever after a night of carousing. Instead of Cambridge and a career he experiences duels, battles, frantic escapes and a brutal Canadian winter before learning the truth of his father’s words.

Jean Rombaud has been brought over from France to behead Anne Boleyn. On the eve of the execution he swears an oath to the queen that he will bury her six-fingered hand at a sacred crossroads, little realising that many would kill to obtain such a relic!

May 1665. On a dark road outside London, a simple robbery goes horribly wrong when highwayman, William Coke, discovers that his intended victims have been brutally slaughtered. But there's another murderer moving through the slums, the taverns and palaces, and slipping under the doorways of the rich. A mass murderer. Plague...