The Devils Assassin, Paul Fraser Collard
The Devils Assassin, Paul Fraser Collard
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The Devil's Assassin
Battle of Khoosh-Ab, 1857

Author: Paul Fraser Collard

Series: Jack Lark

Narrator: Dudley Hinton

Unabridged: 11 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Headline

Published: 07/14/2016

Synopsis

Jack Lark is The Devil's Assassin who stalks the streets of Bombay in this exhilarating and dangerous adventure by Paul Fraser Collard. History 'blazes across the pages' (Anthony Riches) in this series that will appeal to readers of Bernard Cornwell and Simon Scarrow.

Bombay, 1857. Jack Lark is living precariously as an officer when his heroic but fraudulent past is discovered by the Devil - Major Ballard, the army's intelligence officer. Ballard is gathering a web of information to defend the British Empire, and he needs a man like Jack on his side. Not far away, in Persia, the Shah is moving against British territory and, with the Russians whispering in his ear, seeks to conquer the crucial city of Herat. The Empire's strength is under threat and the army must fight back.

As the British march to war, Jack learns that secrets crucial to the campaign's success are leaking into their enemies' hands. Ballard has brought him to the battlefield to end a spy's deceit. But who is the traitor?

THE DEVIL'S ASSASSIN sweeps Jack Lark through a thrilling tale of explosive action as the British face the Persian army in the inky darkness of the desert night.

(P)2016 Headline Digital

About Paul Fraser Collard

Paul's love of military history started at an early age. A childhood spent watching films like Waterloo and Zulu whilst reading Sharpe, Flashman and the occasional Commando comic, gave him a desire to know more of the men who fought in the great wars of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. At school, Paul was determined to become an officer in the British army and he succeeded in winning an Army Scholarship. However, Paul chose to give up his boyhood ambition and instead went into the finance industry. Paul stills works in the City, and lives with his wife and three children in Kent.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jean

This is book three in the Jack Lark series. I did not read the first two books in the series. I just plunged into book three. Paul Fraser Collard is a new author to me. The story takes place in the year 1857 in Bombay, India. The story begins with Lark masquerading as a British Officer. He is discove......more

Goodreads review by Christian

For the full review and more, visit my blog After impersonating two British officers in the previous books, Jack Lark’s third charade is discovered quickly (first chapter) by the British intelligence officer Ballard. Instead of exposing Jack as a criminal and thus a sure death, Ballard presses Jack i......more

Goodreads review by Speesh

For those dreaming of new days of Empire in times of Brexit, this series would seem to be the perfect place to escape. For those of us who aren't, but are ex-pats also. At the start of this book, Jack Lark seem (already) much more of a rogue. His 'eye for the ladies' clearly doesn't see wedding rings......more

Goodreads review by Ian

First of all, I brought this as an audio book rather than a traditional book. In this volume of the continuing (mis)adventures of Jack Lark. While living on his wits in the city of Bombay he gets seconded to a rather shady individual in the shape of a Major Ballard AKA The Devil from the title. This......more

Quotes

Brilliant

Savage, courageous, and clever Goodreads on THE SCARLET THIEF

I love a writer who wears his history lightly enough for the story he's telling to blaze across the pages like this. Jack Lark is an unforgettable new hero

The spirit of Sharpe lives again in another time, in another war, in the guise of Jack Lark www.parmenionbooks.wordpress.com on THE MAHARAJAH'S GENERAL

A confident, rich and exciting novel that gave me all the ingredients I would want for a historical adventure of the highest order www.forwinternights.wordpress.com on THE MAHARAJAH'S GENERAL

The Devil's Assassin could well have been a Sharpe tale . . . Collard has become one of the most readable figures in historical fiction Parmenion Books

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