CONTENTS
BOOK I
The Shivering of the Timbers
‘A dark shape in the azure waters lay.’
In which we meet our hero in medias res…
‘Child Rowland to the dark tower came.’
In which Jack takes a tour of the ship, and the framing narration is established…
‘To see one of these creatures, in the flesh is to know that they are, in fact, quite human.’
In which the captain discourses upon the subject of mermaids, and Jack is found out…
‘My father was a consummate dreamer.’
In which our hero commences his autobiography…
‘I never knew precisely what happened to my mother at the shop.’
In which a serpent enters the garden…
‘Zombi bankers I doubly hate!’
In which a play is performed, and investment banking is explored through the medium of grave-robbing…
‘My reason fails me this night. Already, I have seen the shadows moving in the darkness beyond the glass.’
In which Jack relates a tale of terror…
‘Seasoned knucks in quod will discourse at length on the horrors of incarceration.’
In which events take a turn for the worse…
‘She had what my mother would have called a filthy laugh.’
In which we meet the original Bill and Nancy…
‘She kept me outside freezing, just to let me know who was in charge.’
In which an assignation is arranged, and everyone is a critic…
‘I managed to get away with it because everyone loves stories about sharks.’
In which the plot thickens…
‘You are perverted by language, my young friend.’
In which events are complicated by the arrival of dandies in the underworld…
‘It is never too late to have a happy childhood.’
In which Jack becomes One of the Fancy…
‘Kidd! Thou should’st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee.’
In which pirates become almost as fashionable as highwaymen…
‘It was not her curses that troubled him as he carried her to the altar, but her unholy laughter.’
Concerning the haunting of Anne Bonny’s private places…
APPENDIX: Finding Jack Vincent
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