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My Bonny Light Horseman

Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War

My Bonny Light Horseman( )
Author: Meyer, L. A.
Series title:Bloody Jack Adventures Ser.
ISBN:978-1-299-89298-9
Publication Date:Jan 2010
Publisher:Harcourt Trade Publishers
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $8.99
Book Description:

The infamous pirate, riverboat seductress, master of disguise, and street-urchin-turned-sailor Jacky Faber has been captured by the French and beheaded in full view of her friends and crew.

Inconceivable? Yes! The truth is she's secretly forced to pose as an American dancer behind enemy lines in Paris, where she entices a French general into revealing military secrets--all to save her dear friends. Then, in intrepid Jacky Faber style, she dons male clothing and worms her way...
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Author Biography
Meyer, L. A. (Author)
L. A. Meyer was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in 1942. He received a B.A. in English literature from the University of Florida in Gainesville and soon after, enlisted in the U.S. Navy for a four year-stint. He worked as a social worker and then published two picture books, The Gypsy Bears and The Clean Air and Peaceful Contentment Dirigible Airline, before receiving his M.F.A. in painting from Boston University in 1973.

He taught high school art in Massachusetts for seven years and then left to open art and design shops. His first novel for young readers, Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy, was published in 2002. It became the first book in the Bloody Jack Adventure series. He died from Hodgkin's lymphoma on July 29, 2014 at the age of 71.

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