Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack

#1 Burton and Swinburne

Mark Hodder

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English

PYR
08 November 2010

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & Mystery; Fantasy; Cultural & Period Fantasy; 19th Century; Europe; Philip K Dick Award

Series: Burton & Swinburne Adventure

London, 1861. Sir Richard Francis Burton - explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career in tatters; his former partner missing and probably dead. Algernon Charles Swinburne - unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade, for whom pain is pleasure, and brandy is ruin! They stand at a crossroads in their lives and are caught in the epicenter of an empire torn by conflicting forces: Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier, and dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labor; Libertines oppose repressive laws and demand a society based on beauty and creativity; while the Rakes push the boundaries of human behavior to the limits with magic, drugs, and anarchy. The two men are sucked into the perilous depths of this moral and ethical vacuum when Lord Palmerston commissions Burton to investigate assaults on young women committed by a weird apparition known as Spring Heeled Jack, and to find out why werewolves are terrorizing London's East End. Their investigations lead them to one of the defining events of the age, and the terrifying possibility that the world they inhabit shouldn't exist at all!

By: Mark Hodder
Imprint: PYR
Dimensions: Height: 227mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781616142407
ISBN 10: 1616142405
Series: Burton & Swinburne Adventure
Pages: 373
Publication Date: 08 November 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (#1 Burton and Swinburne)

Praise for the Philip K. Dick Award-winning Burton & Swinburne books: The usual superlatives for really clever fantasy (imaginative, mind-bending, phantasmagorical) aren't nearly big enough for this debut novel. With this one book, Hodder has put himself on the genre map. -Booklist, starred review of The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack Hodder, with an encyclopedic grasp of period detail, tellingly brings these disparate, oddly familiar yet eerily different worlds to fecund life. Enthralling, dizzying, and as impressive as they come. -Kirkus Reviews, starred review Every once in a while I come across a book, or series of books, that totally yanks the carpet out from under me. Then it reaches out, smashes me in the face with its awesomeness, and says, 'You love me!' Leaving me with naught to do but obligingly respond, 'Yes. Yes I do.' [The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man] was every bit the book that I had hoped it would be. -Elitist Book Reviews Whatever one chooses to call [The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack], it would be very difficult to deny its overwhelming brilliance. I can't remember the last time a novel has surprised, awed, and enthused me so utterly that I'm almost left at a loss for words for how to recommend it. -Rob Will Review