Jack Cloudie (Jackelian World)
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (628 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0765369400 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Assigned to the most useless airship in the fleet, serving under a captain who is most probably mad, Jack seems to be bound for almost certain death in the faraway deserts of Cassarabia. Thanks to his father's gambling debts, young Jack Keats finds himself on the streets and trying to survive as a pickpocket. Unexpectedly freed, he joins the Caliph's military forcesjust as war is brewing. Two very similar young men prepare to face each other across a field of battle. Following a daring bank robbery gone badly awry, Jack narrowly escapes the scaffold, only to be pressed into the Royal Aerostatical Navy. But is Omar the enemy, or is Jack's true nemesis the sickness at the heart of the Caliph's court?. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, the slave Omar ibn Barir finds his life turned upside down when his master's religious sect is banned. Jack Cloudie is a tale of high adventure and derring-do set in the same Victorian-style steampunk world as Stephen Hunt's acclaimed The Court of the Air and The Secrets of the Fire Sea
(Aug.) . Getting the ship to fly is the first order of business for a crew made up of misfits, convicts, and drunkards, and their mission, to penetrate hostile territory to spy on the Cassarabians new airships, is so risky as to be suicidal. From Publishers Weekly In the swashbuckling fifth steampunk-inspired fantasy in Hunt's Jackelian series (after Secrets of the Fire Sea), Jack Keats is caught red-handed trying to break into Lords Bank. Agent: John Jarrold. Hunt combines elements of fantasy, genetic manipulation, and a large dash of Patrick O'Brien to form a wonderfully satisfying tale of adventure. Jack becomes a transaction engine operator on the Iron Partridge, the RAN's ramshackle, unloved prototype aerostat. He faces death at th
TomC said Great Action, but the wrong side wins. While this is a passably good adventure tale, it has some disturbing undercurrents that ultimately make it into a tragedy - which I can only hope was what the author intended.It is set mostly in and above the ancient and ruthlessly theocratic Cassarabian empire, which oppresses much of the world. Opposing that empire are two forces - the Jackelian empire (Great Britain more or less, and more or less the good guys), and what appears to be a vicious religious cult o