The Devil’s Recruit

Name: The Devil’s Recruit
Rating: 4.3 (2237 reviews)

by S. G. MacLean Book 4 in the Alexander Seaton Series series.

First published 2013

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Aberdeen, 1635. A recruiting ship has arrived to enlist Scottish soldiers for the Thirty Years’ War, and one of Alexander Seaton’s students disappears after a drunken fight. When the young man’s companion is found injured and a woman’s frozen body is discovered in a private garden, the town assumes the missing student has fled after committing murder.

Alexander believes the deaths and disappearance are connected to the recruiters rather than a simple brawl. A cloaked observer from his own past draws him into a scheme that exploits young men seeking military service, and the investigation threatens his household as old betrayals return with consequences he can no longer contain.