The Scottish Prisoner - Diana Gabaldon [0]
Copyright © 2011 by Diana Gabaldon
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Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gabaldon, Diana.
The Scottish prisoner: a novel/Diana Gabaldon.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-53349-4
1. Seven Years’ War, 1756–1763–Fiction. I. Title.
PS3557.A22S36 2011
813′.54—dc23 2011034429
Jacket design and photograph: © Henry Steadman
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Preface
Prologue
SECTION I: The Fate of Fuses
1. April Fool
2. Erse
3. An Irishman, a Gentleman
4. Not Good
5. Why Am Not I at Peace?
6. Summoning
SECTION II: Force Majeure
7. When a Man Is Tired of London, He Is Tired of Life
8. Debts of Honor
9. Eros Rising
10. Punch and Judy
11. Vulgar Curiosity
12. The Belly of a Flea
13. By Darkness Met
14. Fridstool
SECTION III: Beast in View
15. The Return of Tobias Quinn
16. Tower House
17. Castle Athlone
18. Fireside Tales
19. Quagmire
20. Stalking Horse
21. A Poultice for Bruising
22. Glastuig
23. Plan B
24. Clishmaclaver
25. Escape from Athlone
26. Opium Dreams
27. Loyalty and Duty
28. Amplexus
SECTION IV: A Tithe to Hell
29. The Wild Hunt
30. Particular Friends
31. Betrayal
32. Duello
33. Billets-Doux
34. All Heads Turn as the Hunt Goes By
35. Justice
36. Teind
37. Sole Witness
SECTION V: Succession
38. Redux
39. The Fog Comes Down
40. Gambit
41. A Moonlicht Flicht
42. Point of Departure
43. Succession
Author’s Notes
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Other Books by This Author
About the Author
Excerpt from Written in My Own Heart’s Blood
Preface
Chronology of the Novels: When to Read What?
The Lord John novellas and novels* are sequential, but are built to stand alone; you don’t need to read them in order.
In terms of their relationship to the larger Outlander novels: These books are part of the overall series, but are focused for the most part on those times in Lord John’s life when he’s not “onstage” in the main novels. This particular book focuses also on a part of Jamie Fraser’s life not covered in the main novels.
All of the Lord John novels take place between 1756 and 1766—this one is set in 1760—and in terms of the overall Outlander novels/timeline, they thus occur more or less in the middle of Voyager. So you can read any of them, in any order, once you’ve read Voyager, without getting lost.
* There are also a couple of short stories—and will eventually be more—dealing with minor events, minor characters, and/or lacunae in the main books. These are presently published in various anthologies, but will eventually be collected in book form.
“A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows” appears in the anthology Songs of Love and Death (edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois). This is a short story set in WWII that tells the story of what really happened to Roger MacKenzie’s parents, Jerry and Dolly.
“The Space Between” is a novella that will appear in an anthology titled The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination (edited by John Joseph Adams), which will likely appear sometime in 2012. This story is set mostly in Paris and involves Joan McKimmie (Marsali’s younger sister), Michael Murray (Young Ian’s older brother), the Comte St. Germain (no, of course he’s not dead, don’t be silly), and Mother Hildegarde.
Prologue
If you deal in death routinely, there are two paths. Either it becomes routine, in which case ye risk killing for nothing and thus lose your soul—for if the lives ye take are worth nothing, neither is yours.
Or you become that much more aware of the value