March 28 - April 1, 2007

C.C. Humphreys, Absolute Honour. (McArthur & Company)

C.C. Humphreys was born in Toronto, Canada, and grew up in Los Angeles and London. A third generation actor and writer on both sides of his family, he returned to Canada in the nineties and there his writing
career began. He was a schoolboy fencing champion, became a fight
choreographer and turned his love of swashbuckling towards historical fiction. He has recently returned to live in Vancouver (after 12 years in London, England) with his wife and infant son.

Thursday, March 29, 2007
Lord Nelson Hotel
730PM
with Joseph Kanon, David Gibbins, and Krista Bridge.

Masterclass Series:
Writing Historical Fiction
Saturday, March 31, 2007
1230PM
Registration Required.

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Blooded on the battlefields of Canada, fresh from a winter spent in a voluptuous widow’s bed, Jack Absolute has every reason to feel good. And life only gets better when the ship returning him to England takes a rich prize, Jack’s sword winning him a lieutenant’s share of the booty. But gold is not all the French ship has in its holds. Fever nearly kills him, his life saved by his new comrade, Red Hugh McClune. Friendship then takes him to convalesce in Bath and into a passionate liaison with the Irishman’s beautiful relative, Laetitia. Yet neither cousin are all that they seem and tragedy strikes. He escapes with his life… but loses his honour. From cannon fire off the Azores to an assassination attempt on King George; from espionage at the Jacobite Court in Rome to the storming of a Spanish town; through betrayal and mutiny, grenades and cavalry charges and a climactic duel against an unbeatable foe, Jack seeks to restore that honour – with a consequence he could not have foreseen and a price to be paid in blood.