Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade

Zusatztext “First-rate . . . From London’s literary salons and political intrigue to fearsome battle scenes in the Seven Years’ War! [Diana Gabaldon’s] writing is always vivid and often lyrical.”— The Washington Post   “Strongly recommended . . . Gabaldon’s expert knowledge of her time period and delicate feel for the intricacies of human behavior make this second Grey novel as enjoyable as the first.”— Library Journal Informationen zum Autor Diana Gabaldon is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular Outlander novels— Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (for which she won a Quill Award and the Corine International Book Prize), An Echo in the Bone, and Written in My Own Heart’s Blood —as well as a collection of Outlander fiction, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall; the related Lord John Grey books Lord John and the Private Matter, Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade, Lord John and the Hand of Devils, and The Scottish Prisoner; two works of nonfiction, The Outlandish Companion, Volumes 1 and 2; the Outlander graphic novel, The Exile; and The Official Outlander Coloring Book . She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with her husband. Klappentext NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Diana Gabaldon, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander saga, brings back one of her most compelling characters: Lord John Grey. Here Gabaldon weaves together the strands of Lord John's secret and public lives-a shattering family mystery, a love affair with potentially disastrous consequences, and a war that stretches from the Old World to the New. It's been seventeen years since Lord John's father, the Duke of Pardloe, was found dead, a pistol in his hand and accusations of his role as a Jacobite agent staining forever a family's honor. Now unlaid ghosts from the past are stirring. Lord John's brother has mysteriously received a page of their late father's missing diary-and John is convinced that someone is taunting the Grey family with secrets from the grave. So he turns to the only man he can trust: the Scottish Jacobite James Fraser. But war, a forbidden affair, and Fraser's own secrets will complicate Lord John's quest-until James Fraser yields the missing piece of an astounding puzzle and Lord John must decide whether his family's honor is worth his life. Chapter One All in the Family London, January 1758 The Society for Appreciation of the English Beefsteak, A Gentlemen’s Club To the best of Lord John Grey’s knowledge, stepmothers as depicted in fiction tended to be venal, evil, cunning, homicidal, and occasionally cannibalistic. Stepfathers, by contrast, seemed negligible, if not completely innocuous. “Squire Allworthy, do you think?” he said to his brother. “Or Claudius?” Hal stood restlessly twirling the club’s terrestrial globe, looking elegant, urbane, and thoroughly indigestible. He left off performing this activity, and gave Grey a look of incomprehension. “What?” “Stepfathers,” Grey explained. “There seem remarkably few of them among the pages of novels, by contrast to the maternal variety. I merely wondered where Mother’s new acquisition might fall, along the spectrum of character.” Hal’s nostrils flared. His own reading tended to be confined to Tacitus and the more detailed Greek and Roman histories of military endeavor. The practice of reading novels he regarded as a form of moral weakness; forgivable, and in fact, quite understandable in their mother, who was, after all, a woman. That his younger brother should share in this vice was somewhat less acceptable. However, he merely said, “Claudius? From Hamlet? Surely not, John, unless you happen to know something about Mother that I do not.” Gr...

Product details

• Authors: Diana Gabaldon
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2008
• EAN: 9780385337502
• ISBN: 978-0-385-33750-2
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 210 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Delta; Lord John Grey; Lord John Grey
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature