The Scottish Prisoner

Name: The Scottish Prisoner
Rating: 4.6 (7552 reviews)

by Diana Gabaldon Book 3 in the Lord John Grey series.

First published 2011

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In 1760, Jamie Fraser is living under parole in the Lake District when a former Jacobite associate approaches him with evidence of a new political conspiracy. Lord John Grey is separately investigating corruption and murder connected to the British Army. Their reluctant cooperation takes them to Ireland, where personal distrust, Jacobite loyalties and official espionage become entangled in a plot capable of damaging both men.

Jamie and Lord John approach the conspiracy from positions shaped by opposite memories of the Jacobite cause. Their cooperation is therefore never merely practical: each man must decide what he believes about the other’s honour while working through army corruption and Irish political tensions. The mystery makes their uneasy relationship a test of whether loyalty can exist across the divisions left by civil war.