Jonathan's Journey

A coming of age story about a young man who becomes a lawyer. When Jonathan Seney was 18, an expatriate from Maryland attending Inns of Court in London, his roommates exposed him to the HellFire club as a way of celebration. Daniel Defoe called the club a pagan circle where God was owned, sworn by, imprecated, blasphemed, and denied all in the same breath. What went on in the private rooms of the HellFire stayed in the HellFire. Parliament tried numerous times to shut down the taverns, but never succeeded. Samuel Johnson proclaimed, "The true felicity of human life is a tavern." It was a cornucopia of good times