Jack Lark is The Devil\'s Assassin who stalks the streets of Bombay in this exhilarating and dangerous adventure by Paul Fraser Collard.
Paul stills works in the City, and lives with his wife and three children in Kent..
However, Paul chose to give up his boyhood ambition and instead went into the finance industry.
At school, Paul was determined to become an officer in the British army and he succeeded in winning an Army Scholarship.
A childhood spent watching films like Waterloo and Zulu whilst reading Sharpe, Flashman and the occasional Commando comic, gave him a desire to know more of the men who fought in the great wars of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
About the Author: Paul\'s love of military history started at an early age.
But who is the traitor? THE DEVIL\'S Assassin sweeps Jack Lark through a thrilling tale of explosive action as the British face the Persian army in the inky darkness of the desert night.
Ballard has brought him to the battlefield to end a spy\'s deceit.
As the British march to war, Jack learns that secrets crucial to the campaign\'s success are leaking into their enemies\' hands.
The Empire\'s strength is under threat and the army must fight back.
Not far away, in Persia, the Shah is moving against British territory and, with the Russians whispering in his ear, seeks to conquer the crucial city of Herat.
Ballard is gathering a web of information to defend the British Empire, and he needs a man like Jack on his side.
Jack Lark is living precariously as an officer when his heroic but fraudulent past is discovered by the Devil - Major Ballard, the army\'s intelligence officer.
Bombay, 1857.
History \'blazes across the pages\' (Anthony Riches) in this series that will appeal to readers of Bernard Cornwell and Simon Scarrow.
Jack Lark is The Devil\'s Assassin who stalks the streets of Bombay in this exhilarating and dangerous adventure by Paul Fraser Collard
