Gripping from start to finish…
Ring melds history, politics, and spy craft into an enthralling story of valor and patriotism in his latest, the debut installment in the Scandalous Memoirs of General John Torrance series. 1880. Twenty-year-old Jack Torrance, an inexperienced military cadet at the Royal Military College in Kingston, is on his way to Rideau Hall to deliver an important invitation for the Governor General. A chance meeting with Sir Alexander Galt and Senator Macpherson in a saloon bar in a railway station sets him out on an unexpected journey where cunning and courage are a necessity for survival. Ring delivers sound plot and tense atmosphere, but it’s his complex protagonist and insights into the Canadian political landscape of the era that stand out. He plausibly recreates the 19th-century era, and wrings real emotion out of Jack’s quest, dealing out the plot’s surprises at a measured pace. The storyline is intriguing and the execution expert. Enriching the narrative with careful spycraft details, sound character development, and finely realized settings, Ring has delivered a page-turning winner.
Jack the Lad
Book One of the Scandalous Memoirs of General John Torrance
D.E. Ring
Grinder
Pub date October 2, 2023
ISBN 978-1738095704
Price $15.95 (USD) Paperback, $0.00 Kindle Unlimited