The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Burton & Swinburne in)

London, 1861. Sir Richard Francis Burton - explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career in tatters; his former partner missing and probably dead. Algernon Charles Swinburne - unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade, for whom pain is pleasure, and brandy is ruin! Their investigations lead them to one of the defining events of the age, and the terrifying possibility that the world they inhabit shouldn't exist at all! Winner of the 2011 Philip K. Dick Award Sir Richard Francis Burton investigates a strange apparition called Spring Heeled Jack that has been assaulting young women around London Sir Richard Francis Burton undersøger et mærkeligt genfærd, der kaldes Spring Heeled Jack, som har overfaldet unge kvinder i London