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	Jack Shaftoe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jack Shaftoe is a fictional character featured in the novels of Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle.
		Jack is an English vagabond turned soldier of fortune turned adventurer.
		Jack is the father, with Mary Dolores (an Irish woman deceased before the start of the story) of twin boys (Jimmy Shaftoe and Danny Shaftoe) through which he is (presumably) an ancestor of Bobby Shaftoe from the novel Cryptonomicon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Shaftoe (230 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: The Confusion, by Neal Stephenson, Hardcover
		The two primary story lines revolve around Jack Shaftoe, the infamous King of the Vagabonds, and Eliza, a seductive spy who is both puppet-master and pawn to powerful alchemists, cryptographers, and kings.
		In this sequel to Quicksilver, Jack Shaftoe, who is recovering from partial memory loss, finds himself one of a group of ten galley slaves aboard a Turkish warship and, along with his oarmates, immerses himself in a daring plan to escape, steal a ship, and acquire a shipment of precious metals.
		The rollicking adventures of Jack Shaftoe are both amusing and poignant and the machiavellian machinations of Eliza are sinfully entertaining.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0060523867 (1994 words)

	Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson - read review
		Jack Shaftoe was a galley slave, half mad with the pox, Eliza was in danger of losing everything.
		In this book we are relieved to see Jack relatively sane again, the pox burned out of his blood by a horrible fever, and Eliza, though still without the considerable funds she managed to amass is managing to stay afloat thanks to her wits...despite the fact she’s carrying around an infant son.
		Jack and his fellow galley slaves are about to embark on an impossible mission, to steal a king’s ransom in silver from a Spanish treasure ship in a desperate bid to earn their freedom and a percent of the profits.
	www.mostlyfiction.com /history/stephenson.htm (1717 words)

	The Confusion - Neal Stephenson
		Jack Shaftoe is magnificent, a swashbuckling hero with a foul mouth and few morals, and his adventures are the most appealing sections of the novel.
		As Jack and the others had foreseen, merely being in the possession of such a treasure isn't enough to ensure comfort and happiness; far from it, of course: their brazen acts and the huge hoard make them much sought-after targets.
		Jack's distant bonanza-coup also affects her, as she is an easy one to blame: one of the big losers, Lothar von Hacklheber, takes what is most precious to her -- young Jean-Jacques (soon known as: Johann).
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/stephenn/cfusion.htm (1796 words)

	Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle — Ergo Sum
		In book two of the first volume, the reader is introduced to the vagabond Jack Shaftoe and Eliza, who was kidnapped off the beach of her home Qwghlm and sold into slavery to become a love slave to an Arab sheik.
		Jack of course heroically rescues her as she is about to be put to death and they travel through out Europe.
		Jack, who is baffled by this whole system of trading information, is soon out down by her and decides he has to go off and earn his wealth so that he does not have to be dependent upon her.
	ergo-sum.us /Members/nikic/baroquecycle/view (790 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		When they meet, Jack is King of the Vagabonds, and Eliza a slave of the Turks, whom he rescues.
		Jack endures servitude as a galley slave chained to his oar.
		But this longed-for meeting is not the happy ending Jack hoped for, and he is sent on another capricious, impossible quest at the novel's end.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue363/books.html (1089 words)

	HippoPress -- The Hippo -- Guide to Manchester NH
		Jack the Coiner, pirate prince, is tasked by Louis XIV, to whom he owes a considerable amount, with debasing the English currency by whatever means possible.
		To wit Jack’s roguish wit is pitted against the greatest mind of the time, Isaac Newton, newly charged master of the Mint (i.e.
		Eliza, the lost love of Jack Shaftoe, French countess, British Duchess, companion to the Hanovers, Mother of Princess Caroline’s lover, business woman extraordinare (etc., etc.) fights to abolish slavery worldwide.
	www.hippopress.com /books/systemoftheworld041125.html (775 words)

	The Confusion: A Review at Polytropos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		This is something of a disappointment, because there was a certain charm in seeing Jack as a hapless wretch richocheting among the power centers of Europe—it was a refreshing change of pace from the brace of geniuses that surrounded him in the roster of protagonists.
		Like Jack, Eliza moves from being a clever survivor to a true mover and shaker, literally deciding the fate of kingdoms with her financial dealings.
		Jack and Eliza are too busy doing for us to spend all that much time in their heads, but Daniel, a Salieri (save for his lack of bitterness) to Newton’s Mozart, is someone we get to know intimately in Quicksilver.
	www.polytropos.org /?p=362 (2534 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson, Hardcover
		For example, “Half-Cocked” Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds, and a distant ancestor of U.S. marine raider Bobby Shaftoe.
		It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe — London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds —; risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox...
		Principal among these events are Jack Shaftoe (distant ancestor of a character from Cryptonomicon, 1999), a none-too-bright mercenary with a penchant for barely escaping hideous death, and the clever Eliza, rescued from a Turkish harem by Jack, and quickly set on a path of ambitious social-climbing among the French nobility.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0380977427 (1952 words)

	DV: Neal Stephenson
		Jack Shaftoe began his life as a London street urchin and is now a reckless wanderer in search of great fortune.
		The intrepid exploits of Half-Cocked Jack, King of the Vagabonds, are quickly becoming the stuff of legend throughout Europe.
		Daniel, Jack, and Eliza will traverse a landscape populated by mad alchemists, Barbary pirates, and bawdy courtiers, as well as historical figures including Samuel Pepys, Ben Franklin, and other great minds of the age.
	www.readsf.com /html/bks_stephenson.html (1471 words)

	The Best Reviews: Neal Stephenson, The System of the World Review
		Meanwhile street schemer turned noble schemer Eliza de la Zour influences Caroline of Ansbach, consort of the heir to the English throne furthering her desires; while outlaw Jack Shaftoe struggles to avoid the hangman.
		Waterhouse is the glue that keeps the tale together though sidebars with Eliza and Jack stretch the hero's skills to the max.
		It is a secret war between the brilliant, enigmatic Master of the Mint and closet alchemist Isaac Newton and his archnemesis, the insidious counterfeiter Jack the Coiner, a.k.a.
	thebestreviews.com /review24727 (552 words)

	The Tufted Shoot: April, 2005
		For one thing, Jack Shaftoe sane is a lot more interesting than Jack Shaftoe out of his gourd, as he was for a good chunk of the first book (it appears that his syphlitically induced dementia has been halted, even reversed, by an abnormally high fever.
		Structurally, Stephenson splits this into two narratives (labeled "Bonanza" and "Juncto") which are "con-fused" together: in one, Jack and his motley band of cast-off, eclectic, but highly capable (each in his own way) scalliwags form a conspiracy and head off to capture the legendary gold of Solomon.
		This is good stuff, right up through the final couple of scenes, where Eliza's husband (a French noble), and later the Sun King, use the torch Jack is still carrying for her to rather memorably bend him to their will and set the table for the concluding volume.
	home.mho.net /trent.goulding/books/bl_apr04.html (750 words)

	The Confusion: Volume Two Of The Baroque Cycle \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		Meanwhile, in France, the newly ennobled Countess Eliza, once a harem-slave whom Jack rescued from a Turkish encampment, continues an affair with the King's cryptanalyst while raising their infant boy, whom gossips believe is the bastard child of a nobleman Eliza slept with as a cover-up and social-climbing maneuver.
		Beautiful, boundlessly ambitious, and financially brilliant, Eliza is the toast of Europe, except among those who want to flmail, control, or kill her.
		As Jack wanders the planet, she remains planted in Europe, where war, economic speculation, and political maneuvering aid her in creating and losing friends, enemies, and fortunes.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/21311 (494 words)

	:: Neal Stephenson :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.
		It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe -- London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox.
		And it is the tale of Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent Europe through the newborn power of finance.
	www.nealstephenson.com /content/books_bc1_trade.htm (161 words)

	Stephenson's Confusion - Quarter To Three Forums
		Funky 17th century vagabond and soldier-of-fortune Jack Shaftoe, his wacky and implausible adventures.
		Jack goes around the world the long way, and he's a tornado chewing up everything in his path.
		The WW2 Waterhouse stuff was decent in that it was about interesting stuff and quirky, the Shaftoe stuff was ridiculous but also awesome, the Japanese guy was OK but even more ridiculous, and then there was the setup for a bad Crichton book that never developed.
	www.quartertothree.com /game-talk/showthread.php?t=11091 (1737 words)

	The Best Reviews: Neal Stephenson, The Confusion Review
		In 1689 off the Barbary Coast, a slightly insane Jack Shaftoe is one of a crew of slaves rowing a pirate's ship when a plan to escape surface.
		THE CONFUSION is actually two Baroque tales interwoven (literally as the perspective predominantly shifts between Eliza and Jack and to a lesser degree the Juncto (Leibniz, Newton, etc.).
		Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune.
	thebestreviews.com /book9346 (478 words)

	Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		One-third of the way through the book, Stephenson drops the tale of Daniel Waterhouse and picks up that of Jack Shaftoe, a London urchin-turned-mercenary who rescues a harem-girl named Eliza during the Battle of Vienna (in which the armies of Christendom turn back a Muslim threat).
		Jack does not end well (what Shaftoe ever does?), but Eliza winds up in the court of yet another head of empire - not a Muslim this time, but one who is ostensibly Christian.
		The final act returns to Daniel Waterhouse, who as an adult has become part of the inner circle of bureaucrats keeping a close eye on the ascension to the throne by the scandalously Catholic James II.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Nov03/quicksilver.htm (656 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Books, Criticism & Writing > Confusion - the new Neal Stephenson book
		I'm less sure about Eliza and her plotlines, though that might be because I have a fairly low tolerance for courtly inrigue and the like.
		Jack connected Eliza to D'Arcachon because of the white horses with pink eyes.
		Now that Jack has gone into the East (bear in mind I'm only half way through) Bob has to come into the foreground and undercut some of the Leibniz to Fatio style scenes.
	www.barbelith.com /topic/16812 (564 words)

	Hill House, Publishers: Books by Neal Stephenson
		It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe -- London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox.
		And it is the tale of Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent Europe through the newborn power of finance.
		As Daniel combs city and country for clues to the identity of the flguard who is attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers, political factions jockey for position while awaiting the impending death of the ailing queen, and the "holy grail" of alchemy, the key to life eternal, tantalizes and continues to elude Isaac Newton.
	www.hillhousepublishers.com /ns-home01.htm (697 words)

	Messages from the Ether: Review: Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson (4/5)
		Daniel Waterhouse in book one, Jack Shaftoe in book two, and Eliza in book three.
		He grows up taught to expect the apocalypse in 1666, rooms with Isaac Newton at Cambridge, hates alchemists, was a member of The Royal Society, and moves to Boston after some political upheaval occurs at the end of the novel.
		Jack Shaftoe ("The King of the Vagabonds") -- We trace his difficult, and wildly adventurous life, from beginning to (presumed) end.
	www.scottdstrader.com /blog/ether_archives/000003.html (571 words)

	The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2) -- book review
		Jack, about to get annoyed because he’s heard it all before, at one point asks, “Is this going to be one of those yarns about… some sunken treasure-ship?” Sunken treasure was, of course, the raison d’etre of
		Eliza is your prototypical abolitionist, at least once she is removed from the Turk’s harem by Jack and has a chance to once again pursue her destiny.
		In the process, Jack and Cabal company have burned their European bridges behind them, so it’s off to India, the Malabar coast, more adventures, much loss and gain of life and treasure, and eventually a voyage around the world.
	www.curledup.com /confusio.htm (1423 words)

	Kevin Schofield's Weblog
		In the meantime, he learns that Jack Shaftoe, aka Jack the Coiner, has been counterfeiting UK currency and escaping capture, to the unending ire of the Master of the Mint and Dr. Waterhouse's college roommate, Sir Isaac Newton.
		The Confusion is mostly a story of Jack's adventures on the high seas, and Eliza's adventures in political intrigue in the court at Versailles.
		The System of the World is really Daniel's story; where for the first time we see him emerge from a supporting role to take center stage, both to sleuth out the bombing as well as to lay his own plans.
	radio.weblogs.com /0133184/2004/10/31.html (351 words)

	The Confusion by Neal Stephenson
		The three are Daniel Waterhouse, a British “natural philosopher” and friend of Isaac Newton; Jack Shaftoe, a vagabond of such notorious repute that he’s starred in his own series of pamphlets; and Eliza, a native of a small Island off Britain who was kidnapped by a French lord and enslaved to a Turkish sultan.
		As The Confusion opens Jack is enslaved on an Algerian galley, Eliza has used her financial acumen to entrench herself in the court of Louis XVI as the Duchess of Qwghlm, and Daniel is dreaming of moving to the Massachusetts colony so he can work free of English politics.
		In the second half Jack travels all the way around the world, Eliza tries to deal with some very unpleasant consequences of her schemes, and Daniel is cajoled into recruiting his estranged friend Newton to head England’s mint.
	www.stomptokyo.com /scott/blog/C1192555080/E2042557316/index.html (518 words)

	Kevin S. Forsyth's book reports: Quicksilver
		She is an escaped harem slave turned financial player, and winds up the Countess of Zeur, a pawn (perhaps) in the royal court of Louis XIV at Versailles.
		Books One and Two tell wholly divergent stories (excepting the appearances of a few common characters), while Book Three proceeds with both, leaping in chapters from Daniel to Jack to Eliza, with the implication that their fortunes will soon be closely intertwined.
		Jack Shaftoe, also known as "Half-Cocked Jack" both due to a physical impediment and as an allusion to his rash behaviour, is a wild-eyed vagabond and privateer; if he'd lived during World War Two he might have wound up as a crazy, gung-ho Marine just like his scion, Bobby Shaftoe.
	kevinforsyth.net /books/quicksilver.htm (1015 words)

	The Salon Interview: Neal Stephenson - Salon
		To balance such cerebral characters as Newton and Daniel Waterhouse (Puritan ancestor of the Waterhouses, crack mathematicians and programmers, in "Cryptonomicon"), he introduces Jack Shaftoe, aka the King of the Vagabonds and his sometime-paramour turned countess and financial whiz, Eliza.
		Shaftoe, like his descendant Bobby in "Cryptonomicon," skips from one outlandish but irresistibly entertaining exploit to the next, barely escaping with his skin intact: war, thieves, prison, pirates -- you name it.
		As for Eliza, well, she's the kind of girl who encrypts top-secret military information in her cross-stitch embroidery and surreptitiously handles the investments of half the court of Louis XIV.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/int/2004/04/21/stephenson/index.html (1509 words)

	Locus Best Science Fiction Novel Award \| Fantasybookspot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		We last saw Jack mentally incapacitated by the French Pox and physically pinned to his ship (by a harpoon through his left shoulder) as he sailed from Amsterdam harbour for the West Indies.
		Unfortunately, this being Jack Shaftoe, nothing is ever simple – the silver turns out to be gold, the gold turns out to be some kind of alchemical treasure prized by some of the Europe’s most powerful men and the simple Plan quickly turns into a global shenanigan to end all shenanigans.
		As Jack’s, Eliza’s and Europe’s stories part and intertwine and part again, it is best to remember that the novel’s period is the so-called Golden Age of European society…and anything could, will and does happen.
	www.fantasybookspot.com /taxonomy/term/283 (1277 words)

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