The Last Legionnaire Jack Lark, Book..., Paul Fraser Collard
The Last Legionnaire Jack Lark, Book..., Paul Fraser Collard
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The Last Legionnaire (Jack Lark, Book 5)
Battle of Solferino, 1859

Author: Paul Fraser Collard

Series: Jack Lark

Narrator: Dudley Hinton

Unabridged: 12 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Headline

Published: 02/15/2017

Synopsis

Paul Fraser Collard's Jack Lark series continues with The Last Legionnaire, which sees Jack marching into the biggest battle Europe has ever known. Fans of Bernard Cornwell hero Richard Sharpe and Simon Scarrow's Britannia will delight in the fast pace and vivid storytelling of Jack's fifth adventure. 'Enthralling' - The Times

Jack Lark has come a long way since his days as a gin palace pot boy. But can he surrender the thrill of freedom to return home?

London, 1859. After years fighting for Queen and country, Jack walks back into his mother's East End gin palace a changed man. Haunted by the horrors of battle, and the constant fight for survival, he longs for a life to call his own. But the city - and its people - has altered almost beyond recognition, and Jack cannot see a place for himself there.

A desperate moment leaves him indebted to the Devil - intelligence officer Major John Ballard, who once again leads Jack to the battlefield with a task he can't refuse. He tried to deny being a soldier once. He won't make the same mistake again.

Europe is about to go to war. Jack Lark will march with them.

(P)2017 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 S.J.A. on November 24, 2016

I’ve been a fan of the Jack Lark books since I first picked up ‘The Scalet Thief’. Paul Fraser Collard has created a character and an overall story that was fresh, new and exciting, and while it looked like it might be a ‘one hit wonder’, he has consistently proved otherwise. I have heard Jack Lark......more

Goodreads review by Speesh on October 14, 2017

Jack Lark is now proving he is much more than a one trick pony. He hasn't really ever, just impersonated a soldier, his ability has shone through whichever conflict he has found himself, but that ability has, because of his impersonations, been appropriated by the character he has 'hidden' in. He is......more

Goodreads review by Kate on January 03, 2018

Jack Lark is back! And this time he must survive the stews of Victorian London and the bloody battlefields of north Italy.......more

Goodreads review by Ian on April 17, 2017

Stepping into the east end of London Jack once called home. He finds the place has changed from what he once knew. But things have a habit of staying the same. Here in 19th century London Jack hopes to find maybe a home or at least some kind of refuge. So he returns to his childhood home, his Mother......more

Goodreads review by Paul on December 28, 2017

Ahh, home sweet home. Jack is back in London; back with his mother; back to Mary. Settled in and working at the gin joint owned by his mother, life has taken a turn for the good for Jack – or has it? The part of London Jack inhabits has it’s own problems, ones that Jack cannot overcome; ones that dr......more

Quotes

Harrowing and shockingly dark... Stunning work Parmenion Books

An appealing and formidable hero Sunday Express magazine

Compelling... a vivid portrait of Victorian London at its worst For Winter Nights

A step outside my usual comfort zone and I enjoyed the trip immensely... Paul Collard is a fabulous writer The Review

Jack Lark is a worthy successor to the great literary soldiers who came before him History... the Interesting Bits

Collard's characters slide effortlessly into the real events of the day Historical Novel Society

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