In 1547 Francis Crawford of Lymond returns to his native Scotland to defend it from English invasion and to redeem his reputation even at the risk of his life.
The Lymond Chronicles Series
This historical saga transports readers to the tumultuous 16th century, following the life of a charismatic and enigmatic adventurer. His journey is fraught with intrigue, battles, and unexpected turns across Europe. The narrative masterfully weaves together political conspiracies, personal dilemmas, and grand historical events. It's an epic tale of loyalty, betrayal, and the search for identity during a time of profound change.
Recommended Reading Order
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Queens' Play
- 496 pages
- 18 hours of reading
Menaced by England and riven by internal discord, Scotland in 1548 clung to a single hope of survival as a nation and an alliance with France to be sealed by the betrothal of the five-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Dauphin. But once in France, Mary suffers a series of ominous accidents.
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The Disorderly Knights
Legendary Lymond Chronicles 3
Combining all the political intrigue of Game of Thrones with the sweeping romanticism of Outlander, Dorothy Dunnett’s legendary Lymond Chronicles have enthralled readers for decades and amassed legions of devoted fans. In this third volume of the series, Francis Crawford of Lymond is dispatched to embattled Malta to assist an order of crusading knights in defending the island against the Turks—only to discover that the greatest threat to the knights may lie within their own ranks. Having refused a commission from the dowager queen of Scotland, Lymond turns mercenary, heading to Malta to observe the Crusading Order of Knights Hospitaller of St. John, a brotherhood of monks sworn to defend Christendom with swords instead of sermons. The Knights’ beloved leader, Sir Graham Reid Malett, is devout and charming, and openly declares it his mission to turn Lymond from his mercenary ways and bring him into the order. But as the Turkish fleet launches a series of devastating attacks, Lymond comes to realize that there may be a much deadlier enemy closer at hand: an adversary who is as subtle as he is savage, and whose piety conceals an absolute genius for evil.
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Pawn in Frankincense
- 544 pages
- 20 hours of reading
Part of Dorothy Dunnett's series that explores the intricacies of 16th-century history through the exploits of the soldier Francis Crawford of Lymond.
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In the fifth volume of the Lymond Chronicles, Lymond travels to Muscovy to advise a half-mad czar and navigates the intrigues of barbaric Russia, all while facing conspiracies from enemies in Tudor England.
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Checkmate
- 608 pages
- 22 hours of reading
For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.Sixth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles , Checkmate takes place in 1557, where Francis Crawford of Lymond is once again in France, leading an army against England. But even as the Scots adventurer succeeds brilliantly on the battlefield, his haunted past becomes a subject of intense interest to forces on both sides.
