By Diana Gabaldon
London, 1760. For Jamie Fraser, paroled prisoner-of-war within the distant Lake District, existence might be worse: He's now not slicing sugar cane within the West Indies, and he's shut adequate to the son he can't declare as his personal. yet Jamie Fraser's quiet life is coming aside on the seams, interrupted first through goals of his misplaced spouse, then through the looks of Tobias Quinn, an erstwhile comrade from the Rising.
Like a number of the Jacobites who aren't lifeless or in criminal, Quinn nonetheless lives and breathes for the reason. His most modern plan comprises an historic relic that might rally the Irish. Jamie is having none of it - he's sworn off politics, battling, and battle. till Lord John gray exhibits up with a summons that might take him clear of every little thing he loves - again.
Lord John gray - aristocrat, soldier, and coffee undercover agent - reveals himself in ownership of a packet of explosive records that exposes a damning case of corruption opposed to a British officer. yet in addition they trace at a extra insidious hazard. Time is of the essence because the research ends up in eire, with a baffling message left in 'Erse,' the tongue favorite by means of Scottish Highlanders. Lord John acknowledges the language all too good from his time as governor of Ardsmuir felony, whilst it used to be jam-packed with Jacobite prisoners, together with a definite Jamie Fraser.
Soon Lord John and Jamie are unwilling partners at the highway to eire, a rustic whose darkish castles carry dreadful secrets and techniques, and whose toilets cover the bones of the useless. a charming go back to the area Diana Gabaldon created in her Outlander and Lord John sequence, The Scottish Prisoner is one other masterpiece of epic historical past, depraved deceit, and ratings which could in basic terms be settled in blood.
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