One of our heroic types here is Will Darling, a former soldier who returns from war to find a world that has moved on without him. Her latest series – The Will Darling Adventures – is a trilogy set shortly after the First World War written in the style of 1920s pulp fiction, featuring rip-roaring adventure, dastardly plots and evil masterminds pitted against tough, heroic types who triumph against the odds. Her Sins of the Cities series is a fantastic homage to the three-volume Victorian sensationalist novel, while The Henchmen of Zenda is an energetic (and marvellously tongue-in-cheek) retelling of a classic that not only conjures up the spirit of the original but adds several layers to the level of characterisation and plot. It’s something that goes beyond employing specific tropes it’s as much to do with evoking the style of writing and the era in which the story is set as it is with whichever elements of storytelling are involved, and there are few authors who can do this sort of thing as well as K.J. I always enjoy it when an author sets out to deliberately write a pastiche or homage to a particular type of book. Note: This story contains mention of chemical weapons and deadly disease.
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