Cliff, Tony. Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant. Book 1 of the Delilah Dirk series. 2013. 167p. ISBN 978-1-59643-813-2. Available in the graphic novels section of the library.
Born to a wealthy English ambassador father and a famous Greek artist mother, Delilah Dirk has lived all over the world. She trained with marksmen in France, hunted in the jungles of India, perfected her acrobatic skills in Indonesia, and spent seven years honing her fighting techniques in a Japanese monastery. A master of forty-seven different sword fighting arts, a member of three different European royal houses, and the proud owner of a flying ship, Delilah travels the world wherever her whimsies take her, looking for treasures or action. Oh, and no prison has ever held her if she didn't want to.
She meets Selim, a lieutenant in the service of a rich Sultan, when he comes to interrogate him in a prison cell. She tells him she plans on robbing several previous scrolls from the Sultan. Selim reports the result of his interrogation, and the Sultan derides the woman's abilities, until the alarm sounds and the palace goes under siege. Delilah managed to escape her bonds, stole the precious scrolls, and finds herself facing Selim again. The Sultan and his guards surprise them both, and demands that they both be killed. Faced with death, Selim follows Delilah and they escape Constantinople aboard her famous flying ship.
Traveling through the air, the two of them head to Delilah's next destination, the lair of fabled pirate lord Zakul, to retrieve some of the loot he stole from one of Delilah's extended friends, a merchant whose ships have been attacked in the Black Sea. In a series of amazing encounters, the two of them forge an unlikely friendship. Fans of graphic novels will enjoy this colorful and beautifully illustrated story.
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