Jack in the Green is an original novella, set in the fictional Southwestern desert city of Santo del Vado Viejo, and is available here for the first time in any format.
Best friends Maria and Luz grew up in the barrio and were inseparable until Luz left town to fight against social injustice. They lose track of one another until one day, while at her job cleaning rich people's homes, Maria spots Luz among a gang robbing the house next door. Luz later tells Maria that her gang robs from the rich and gives to the poor, like a modern day Robin Hood. Luz says she brought the leader and his men to their city by magic.
Maria isn't sure if she believes that, but she does know that she feels an undeniable romantic connection to their handsome leader, the mysterious Jack Green, and the feeling is mutual. Between her rekindled friendship with Luz and her attraction to Jack, she gets drawn into a life thats 180 degrees opposite to how shes been living. But when things go awry, its Maria who must pay the final price.
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Maria Martinez is a young maid, cleaning houses to get by, living in a neighborhood of Santo del Vado Viejo plagued by gang violence and drug cartels. When Maria witnesses her best friend from her teenage years breaking into a house in a gated community where she's working, she has no problem pretending to the police she didn't see a thing. But as Luz Chaidez comes back into Maria's life, Maria can't help remembering the magic Luz left to look for all those years ago. Magic she may have found. Maria is curiously drawn to one of Luz's green-hooded gang of robbers, a handsome redheaded boy who calls himself Jack Green. Soon enough, she's venturing into the dangerous territory of robbing from the rich to give to the poor In this deft, 22,000 word novella, acclaimed fantasist Charles de Lint brings one of the world's most beloved tales into the modern day, transporting Robin Hood from the green wood to the barrio. Jack recasts an epic story of love and friendship, with justice at its center, in a way that readers won't soon forget.
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ISBN : 9780920623176
Words : 22,265
Formats : EPUB
Number of Formats : 1
WordsC : 90 (22,265)
Has Cover : Yes
All Identifiers : amazon_uk:B00ACX087U, goodreads:19088921, isbn:9780920623176
Goodreads : 19088921
Author Len : 3
Original Source : own library
Pages : 90
Sorted Author by LN, FN: Lint, Charles de
Comments Len : 2133
Single Author : Charles de Lint
Title Length : 017
Before Underscore : Jack In the Green
Num of Aut : 1
Record ID : 145424