The Scottish Prisoner

By Diana Gabaldon,

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From the international bestselling author of the Outlander series, the terrific new novel featuring the ever-popular Lord John.

1760. Jamie Fraser is a paroled prisoner-of-war in the remote Lake District. Close enough to the son he cannot claim as his own, his quiet existence is interrupted first by dreams of…

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Diana Gabaldon is one of the best writers of 'intimate epics': tales of more or less ordinary people drawn into the flow and flood of real historical events. I especially enjoy her Lord John novels.

Making her protagonist at odds with the morality of his time—Lord John is an unapologetic (though necessarily closeted) homosexual—creates extra tension in a work that sets John—and in this case, Jamie Fraser as well—against the backdrop of the Jacobite conspiracy's death throes and the prickly honor code of the British Army.

Passionate, humorous, adventurous—all things that keep me turning the pages until the wee hours! 

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When King Priam's pregnant daughter was fleeing the sack of Troy, Stan was there. When Jesus of Nazareth was beaten and crucified, Stan was there - one cross over. Stan has been a Hittite warrior, a Roman legionnaire, a mercenary for the caravans of the Silk Road and a Great War German grunt. He’s been a toymaker in a time of plague, a reluctant rebel in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, and an information peddler in the cabarets of post-war Berlin. Stan doesn't die, and he doesn't know why. And now he's…

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