Book description
Malta, Summer 1551. Here, in a brilliant arena clouded by corruption
and violence, Lymond is precipitated into an intricate and potentially
lethal duel with a man famed for his leadership, his courage, his
saintliness - Graham Reid Malett, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St.
John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta. Malett holds in his sway the hearts
and minds of many men and so, in another fashion, does the dangerous and
beautiful child-woman, his sister. It seems that Lymond must either be
seduced or destroyed. DOROTHY DUNNETT is the author of the Lymond
Chronicles and the on-going House of Niccolo series. She was awarded the
OBE for her services to literature in 1992. She was married to the late
Sir Alastair Dunnett; they live in Edinburgh.
