Tip - get the unabridged audiobook versions from Audible, I couldn't finish Quicksilver in print form but I've listened to the entire Baroque Cycle multiple times.

Edit: Jack Shaftoe is probably my favourite fictional character: King of the Vagabonds, L'Emmerdeur, Half-Cocked Jack, Quicksilver, Ali Zaybak, Sword of Divine Fire, and Jack the Coiner....