London street urchin-turned-legendary adventurer, "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe embarks on a dangerous quest for fortune and love, while Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem, becomes a spy, confidante, and pawn of royalty, in a swashbuckling adventurer set against the backdrop of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Original.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Themes, Fiction + Literature Genres
- Subgenre: Literary Genres + Types of Novels
- Publisher: HarperTorch
- Pages: 377
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: March 1, 2006
- Date Published: March 1, 2006
- Author: Neal Stephenson