1592. Robert Carey,eighth son of Lord Hunsdon,has -to his servants'dismay - abandoned Queen Elizabeth I's court and is heading north to take up the post of Deputy Warden of the English West March,a lawless badlands,peopled by cattle-rustlers,horse-thieves,arsonists,kidnappers and murderers created by centuries of Anglo-Scottish conflict. Carey,in his lace-collared,pearl-sashed courtly finery,will be expected to bring order to this bloody flux. Plunging readers straight into the raucous world of late sixteenth-century border reivers and unfettered Elizabethan intrigue,Guns in the North,the first chronicle of Sir Robert Carey's adventures,collecting the novels A Famine of Horses,A Season of Knives and A Surfeit of Guns under one volume. A Famine of Horses 1994. A Season of Knives 1995. A Surfeit of Guns 1996.
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781786696120Number of pages: 752Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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A Chisholm novel will offer an unforgettable Elizabethan pilgrimageA lively,lifelike adventure that just happens to feature some of the most famous people in the history of dramaFull of romance and intrigue with a great mix of real and imagined characters. The plots unfold with all the drama of a Wild West tale and will have broad appeal to those who enjoy historical adventure and historical mystery alike
P.F. Chisholm
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The author of the hugely popular Outlander series,Diana Gabaldon is a bestselling American novelist of genre-blending fiction.
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