The Black Hawk, Joanna Bourne
The Black Hawk, Joanna Bourne
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The Black Hawk

Author: Joanna Bourne

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Unabridged: 10 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/10/2014


Synopsis

Adrian Hawker rose up snarling out of the slums of London, a cunning thief and a skilled killer. He's rescued from that life by the British Service, who have uses for his particular skill set.

Justine DeCabrillac, daughter of the nobility whose parents died in the chaos of the Revolution, is rescued from a decadent child brothel by a woman of the French Secret Police. Justine, too, becomes a great spy for France.

Attacked on a rainy London street, Justine knows only one man can save her: Hawker, her oldest friend...her oldest enemy. London is crawling with hidden assassins, and someone is out to frame Hawker for murder. The two spies must work together to find who's out to destroy them...

About Joanna Bourne

Joanna Bourne is a RITA Award-winning author of historical romances set in England and France during the Napoleonic Wars, including The Forbidden Rose, My Lord and Spymaster, and The Spymaster's Lady. Joanna lives in the Appalachian Mountains with her family.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mei on March 09, 2018

Their story started a few years after the reign of terror…when they were just children.. Children grew up too fast. Hammered by life and injustice. By lascivious, powerful men… By greedy governments who exploited children… Owl Hawk Secret lovers since teens… … but became something more during the reign......more

Goodreads review by Karen on March 06, 2018

She was with Hawker, so she was safe. In all the world, there was no flesh, no bone, no sound of breathing she would mistake for Hawker's. I'll have to admit, my expectations were probably way too high after reading Doyle's book. I was really looking forward to Adrian's story, and I while......more

Goodreads review by Crystal's Bookish Life on May 17, 2022

Beautiful writing style, but back and forth storytelling with parts of it in the past and part in the present. TW: childhood sexual assault Full review in my next vlog 5/16/22......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on October 20, 2011

I reviewed this novel on my www.bookworm2bookworm.wordpress.com blog 'The Black Hawk’ by Joanna Bourne is a tale that had to be told. I have a feeling that if Ms. Bourne never intended for it, she would have been literally mobbed by every fan of her earlier tales, until she ‘put it out there’. How ca......more

Goodreads review by Jacob on December 11, 2017

This is a bit along in a series (depending on if you go chronologically or by publication date). And you definitely want to read the others first. Adrian features strongly in them all and a large part of the charm of this story is seeing his culmination. I'm afraid I'm going to be an outlier on this......more