About “King of the Vagabonds”
The book chronicles the exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe, a London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly going mad from the pox, alongside Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become a spy, confidante, and pawn of royals reinventing a continent through the power of finance.
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- ISBN 9780060833176