![]() ![]() ![]() My second historical novel is now nearing completion, and I hope to launch it in the Autumn of this year! But will the real Butcher Jack be killed before Roberts reveals the identity of the spy and serial killer? Everything depends on the testimony of others, the love of a selfless woman, and the murderous secret that haunts one man's hope of redemption. Roberts is drawn into the murky world of Victorian espionage, soldier's tales, and psychological deception, hoping to discover who is to blame for Britain's worst military blunder. Or is he? Who is 'Butcher Jack' Vahey of the 17th Lancers who should have died from cholera in the Indian Mutiny? How did a Russian spy deceive the British army so many times in the Crimean War? And why are some of the survivors of the Light Brigade being hunted down and murdered forty years later? ![]() One of the last survivors of the famous Charge of the Light Brigade is a destitute pensioner living in a Liverpool workhouse. But that morning, Jack had decided his life was insignificant he knew six hundred men were about to die, and he had to do something to save them. He knew what he sought to do that day was a reckless act and that he might be killed along with his mates. He judged they were about a mile away, a seven-minute ride if the pace was forced. Jack Vahey’s bleary and blood-shot eyes fixed on the line of Russian guns sat motionless in the valley. North Valley, Balaklava, Crimea, 25 October 1854: ![]()
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