Delilah is accused of being a spy for the French and dragged back to England.Ĭliff reveals a bit of Delilah’s backstory when we visit her family’s estate-where Selim is put to work as a carriage driver-and we see the Regency lifestyle she has happily left behind. Within a few pages they are on the move and the plot unfolds at a steady clip with almost no extraneous material. Delilah and Selim are in Portugal during the Napoleonic wars. Structured like a James Bond or Indiana Jones opening scene, Tony Cliff drops us into a mission that’s nearing its completion. Delilah still has a penchant for going off-script and remains the hot-headed daredevil we met in book one. Delilah and Selim are a team who’ve been working together for years now (think of all the adventures we’re missing!). The second installment in any series usually has a bit more zip to it because the author doesn’t need to spend as much time establishing characters and setting. I thoroughly enjoyed the first book but I may have loved this one even more. These are great graphic novels, but are they Printz contenders?ĭelilah Dirk and the King’s Shilling, Tony Cliffĭelilah Dirk is just plain fun.
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