Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant

, #1

eBook, 176 pages

Langue : English

Publié 7 mars 2016 par First Second.

ISBN :
978-1-62672-696-3
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4 étoiles (1 critique)

Lovable ne’er-do-well Delilah Dirk is an adventurer for the 19th century. She has traveled to Japan, Indonesia, France, and even the New World. Using the skills she’s picked up on the way, Delilah's adventures continue as she plots to rob a rich and corrupt Sultan in Constantinople. With the aid of her flying boat and her newfound friend, Selim, she evades the Sultan's guards, leaves angry pirates in the dust, and fights her way through the countryside. For Delilah, one adventure leads to the next in this thrilling and funny installment in her exciting life.

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Yes, swashbuckling can be lovely

4 étoiles

… and Tony Cliff is here to prove it in the first Delilah Dirk instalment. Not only does he manage to create a heroine so compelling you never doubt someone so out of place in the historical era could and would have stood on her own, his tale of a sheltered Ottoman officer discovering a taste for adventure achieves something rare: a tone of tenderness and subdued glee that never turns into something trite or foreseeable. This one really is a rare gem. [review note]

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