The Blood: What secrets lie aboard? (Jem Flockhart) - Signed, Lined and DatedI knew the smell of death well enough. But here the sweetness of decay was tainted with something else, something new and different. It was a curious, moist smell; a smell that spoke of the ooze and slap of water, of gurgling wet spaces and the sticky, yielding mud of low tide Summoned to the riverside by the desperate, scribbled note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find themselves on board the seamen's floating hospital, an old

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and half-brother to King Henry V

and risk the lives of his closest friends

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