Book description
A casket of incriminating letters from Mary, Queen of Scots. The
letters would be an instrument of persuasion - or blackmail as others
might call it. Whoever held them had a hold over the James VI King of
Scots, now also King James I of England. But for Andrew, seventh
Lord Gray, laying hands on the letters was not going to be easy. They
were secure in the half-ruined Fast Castle that clung to the
sea-cliffs of Berwickshire. A castle that no one could enter if they
were not welcome. And so young David Gray, his bastard nephew, was
sent on a perilous mission . . . 'Through his imaginative dialogue, he
provides a voice for Scotland's heroes' Scotland on Sunday
'Tranter's popularity lies in his knack of making historical events
immediate and exciting' One of Scotland's best-loved authors, Nigel
Tranter wrote over ninety novels on Scottish history. He died at the age
of ninety on 9 January 2000.
