Turpin’s Assassin

Name: Turpin’s Assassin
Rating: 4.1 (50 reviews)

by Richard Foreman Book 1 in the Dick Turpin series.

First published 2021

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Dick Turpin rides to London to sell stolen goods, deal with the fence Joseph Colman and visit his actress mistress, Marie Harley. His growing notoriety makes every tavern and transaction dangerous, but a more deliberate threat has entered the capital: the aristocratic French assassin Pierre Vergier has been given a new target. Turpin must discover whether he is hunter, prey or an expendable tool in another man’s scheme.

The novel reworks the legendary highwayman as an ambitious criminal moving between roadside violence, theatres and fashionable society. Foreman separates Turpin’s later romantic reputation from the harsher world of fences, informers and the Bloody Code, while still using the outlaw’s wit and audacity as the centre of an adventure about justice, loyalty and self-preservation.