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King Cotton III – Jack & the Ripper is the third entry in a series of acclaimed historical fiction novels, with the first two having received 5 star reviews from Reader Views and Readers’ Favorite®.

Jack Bailey, the irresistible scoundrel who charmed his way through the Civil War, helped himself to a share of the Confederate Treasury, distilled bourbon with John Beam (Jim’s uncle), helped establish the Old Chisolm Trail, and witnessed some of the earliest gunfights and train robberies in the Old West is back. A friend to Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Allan Pinkerton, George Armstrong Custer, and other famous figures of the era, Bailey again becomes embroiled in some of the most notable events of the late 1800’s. Jack & the Ripper begins as Bailey reunites with Wild Bill Hickok, now a marshal in Kansas. He later finds himself an unwilling participant in Cuba’s Ten Years War, involved in the circus business, consulting on the Treaty of Washington, hosting Queen Victoria and the future King Edward VII at Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, and patrolling the squalid streets of Whitechapel in 1888, hot on the trail of Jack the Ripper. Predictably, our hero never lacks for female companionship along the way, or for the occasional (and inadvertent) confrontation with characters like Frank and Jesse James and John Wesley Hardin. As it was in the first two books, the people, timelines, and events herein are depicted accurately, and often corroborated with footnotes, photographs and quotes from newspaper articles. For more visit www.kingcottonbooks.com.