The new Award-winning historical adventure fiction series.
An overturned sleigh.
Thundering, galloping, panicking horses.
A thousand yards of hard, rutted ice.
Deliverance or death !
Jack rescues a very public figure and he’s drawn into a gilded world with few rules and heady stakes.
It’s 1880: the world is small; the players have perilous ambitions. Espionage has always been a polite game, but now the stakes are changing.
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The Intelligence Service is not equipped for the modern world.
And it’s certainly not ready for Jack!
Book One of The Scandalous Memoirs of General John Torrance
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How Our Modern World Came into Being.
Modesty is rarely its own reward. But when a Prime Minister notices…
Jack is seconded to the tiny British Intelligence Department, little more than a map room in 1880. He’s assigned to the Balkans, Turkey, and Africa Desk – a hodgepodge of low priority. Jack’s got bugger all to do, but he wants to learn, and he seeks out experts on Islam and its politics.
When trouble erupts in Egypt, his friends offer to pay his way to Cairo. Perhaps Jack can help free the Egyptians. Delighted somebody else is footing the bill, Intelligence Branch sends Jack.
Into a revolution.
The memoirs of General Torrance begin in 1880, when he was just 20 years old and about to be swept up and into a world of danger, money, and intrigue. Jack is an unlikely addtion to the British Intelligence service, but he's game for just about anything. And that's just what happens over a lifetime of adventuring.
Ottawa, London, Cairo, Khartoum, Berlin, New York, Moscow, Delhi, Peking - he is sent to them all and more. From the last cavalry charge to the Cold War, an intelligence agent is always there. And it's often Jack.
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We know how small today's world can be; it was much smaller then. As Jack attests, it was powerful people – with their egos, impetuosity, lasciviousness, lunacy, and bravery – who stumbled the modern world into being.
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Character should always drive plot.