[Jack Lark 05] • The Last Legionnaire

**Paul Fraser Collard's Jack Lark series continues with *The Last Legionnaire, * which sees Jack marching into the biggest battle Europe has ever known. Fans of Bernard Cornwell hero Richard Sharpe and Simon Scarrow's *Britannia* will delight in the fast pace and vivid storytelling of Jack's fifth adventure. 'Enthralling' - *The Times***

*Jack Lark has come a long way since his days as a gin palace pot boy. But can he surrender the thrill of freedom to return home?*

London, 1859. After years fighting for Queen and country, Jack walks back into his mother's East End gin palace a changed man. Haunted by the horrors of battle, and the constant fight for survival, he longs for a life to call his own. But the city - and its people - has altered almost beyond recognition, and Jack cannot see a place for himself there.

A desperate moment leaves him indebted to the Devil - intelligence officer Major John Ballard, who once again leads Jack to the battlefield with a task he can't refuse. He tried to deny being a soldier once. He won't make the same mistake again.

Europe is about to go to war. Jack Lark will march with them.