The novel “The English Assassin” by Michael Moorcock was published for the first time in 1972. It’s the third novel in the Jerry Cornelius series and follows “A Cure for Cancer”.

Jerry Cornelius looks more dead than alive when he is recovered from the sea. Helpless, he becomes a trading pawn in a geopolitical game involving various factions, including the Cornelius family. Various possible apocalypses might be near.