{"product_id":"spring-heeled-jack-9781906727208","title":"Spring Heeled Jack","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is 1861, and Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier and dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labour; Libertines oppose restrictive and unjust laws and flood the country with propaganda demanding a society based on beauty and creativity; while The Rakes push the boundaries of human behaviour to the limits with magic, sexuality, drugs and anarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReturning from his failed expedition to find the source of the Nile, explorer, linguist, scholar and swordsman \u003cem\u003eSir Richard Francis Burton\u003c\/em\u003e finds himself sucked into the perilous depths of this moral and ethical vacuum when the Prime Minister, \u003cem\u003eLord Palmerston\u003c\/em\u003e, employs him as 'King's Spy'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis first mission: to investigate the sexual assaults committed by a weird apparition known as Spring Heeled Jack; to find out why chimney sweeps are being kidnapped by half-man, half-dog creatures; and to discover the whereabouts of his badly injured former friend, \u003cem\u003eJohn Hanning Speke\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccompanied by the diminutive and pain-loving poet, \u003cem\u003eAlgernon Swinburne\u003c\/em\u003e, Burton's investigations lead him back to one of the defining events of the age: the brutal assassination of Queen Victoria in 1840; and the terrifying possibility that the world he inhabits shouldn't exist at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Snowbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50404520132882,"sku":"9781906727208","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/spring-heeled-jack-9781906727208","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}