Jane and the Jackal by Jim Pinnells

Jane and the Jackal by Jim Pinnells

1824. The Darcy family are aboard their yacht, The Pemberley, when Arab corsairs seize it and murder the crew. The Darcys and Jane, their daughter, find refuge first in an Ottoman fort and then at the British consulate in Athens. The Greeks are rebelling against their hated Turkish overlords. Buccaneers and fortune-hunters flock to Greece, eager for booty. War rages, and the all-appalling, pitiless Odysseus governs Athens. Anarchy, mayhem and Turkish armies threaten Athens. In the chaos, the eye of Odysseus lights on Jane Darcy, who is only twelve. Meanwhile, Edmund Bertram, the abusive chaplain at the consulate, shamefully mistreats his wife, Fanny. In despair, she begins a tentative romance with a frequent guest of the Consul, the piratical fortune hunter Edward Trelawny.  Will the six women escape the desperate carnage around them? Will Fanny free herself from the duplicitous tyrant who rules her life? Will young Jane evade the clutches of the merciless impaler who pursues her? Jane and the Jackal is a fast-moving historical romance revealing the inner strengths and weaknesses of Jane Austen’s heroines in a lawless and brutal world far from the familiar peace of rural England.

Jim Pinnells is a consultant working around the world launching, rescuing, or closing out international projects in many fields. Jim studied literature at Cambridge and finished with a doctorate at Frankfurt University. This grounding in literature and historical research underpins his five novels. Isabel Otto was born and raised in Germany as the second daughter of British ex-pats. She is a bilingual teacher and lecturer. Jane and the Jackal is her first novel.

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ISBN 13	9781805143628
ISBN 10	180514362X
Titel	Jane and the Jackal
Autor	Jim Pinnells
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Troubador Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	2024-05-28
Seitenanzahl	360
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.