Silk Purse

✍ Scribed by Jerrard Tickell

• Publisher: The Odyssey Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Jacky Collins was not born to greatness…

Born instead to a mother whose interests lie elsewhere and saddled with a stepfather who doesn’t want him, his life stretches out before him, bleak and miserable.
By the age of twelve, he becomes the ringleader of a boys’ gang and starts a life of crime, one that seems likely to inevitably land him in the nick.

The course of Jacky’s life changes dramatically when he goes to London on a whim.
Eager to bilk as many rich Londoners of their money as possible, he doesn’t think about the future until it comes time to bed down for the night, desperately alone, cold, and frightened....



Jerrard Tickell  (1905 – 1966) was born in Dublin and wrote his first book at just 18. He was a member of the Royal Army Service Corps. His official duties took him all over the world including Egypt and practically every port in the Near East. His books, a number of which have been made into successful movies, include Moon Squadron, Island Rescue and Hussar Honeymoon .