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One-Eyed Jack

D.E. Ring

The future has been foretold. A guide – the Mahdi – will free Soudan, free Egypt, and topple the corrupt Ottoman Empire. Soudan falls to the Mahdi. General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum to evacuate the besieged Egyptians and Europeans, but can’t get out. Fuelled by jingoism, the English mount an expedition to save Gordon. In advance goes Jack – a wild card, a One-Eyed Jack – to reason with two madmen, Gordon and the Mahdi, and get out alive.