Download or read book The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack written by Mark Hodder and published by Burton & Swinburne. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1861, and Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces. Returning from his failed expedition to find the source of the Nile, explorer, linguist, and scholar Sir Richard Francis Burton finds himself sucked into the perilous depths of this moral and ethical vacuum when the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, employs him as 'King's Spy'.