The Game of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett  (20)
£6.59
|
Checkmate (Lymond Chronicles) by Dorothy Dunnett (10)
£8.99
|
Niccolo Rising: The House of Niccolo by Dorothy Dunnett (7)
£9.99
|
To Lie with Lions (The House of Niccolo) by Dorothy Dunnett  (3)
£6.59
|
Caprice and Rondo: The House of Niccolo by Dorothy Dunnett (1)
£7.19
|
This item is not eligible for Amazon Prime, but millions of other items are. Join Amazon Prime today. Already a member? Sign in.
|
|||||||||||||
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Product Description
Review
Brilliant, brawe and bonny Francis Crawford of Lymond has matched wits and swords with traitors in two earlier books: The Game of Kings (1961) and Queen's Play (1964). In The Disorderly Knights he appears fresh from service to the Queen Dowager at the French court to become involved in the most challenging duel of all. His enemy is Sir Graham (Gabriel) Reid Malett, seemingly saintly, greatly gifted Knight of the Order of St. John. The time is 1551, when the Turks assaulted Malta, and Lymond is there to help the Order, and to try to save Oonagh O'Dwyer, an old love and former mistress of the Irish leader O'Connor, presently in a liaison with the cowardly Governor of Gozo, and who is bearing Lymond's child. After the Malta episode ends disastrously, Gabriel joins Lymond in Scotland, where Lymond heads St. Mary's, a fighting force Mary of Guise fears, and which Gabriel ostensibly hopes will save the Order, but for which he has darker uses in mind.... His beautiful sister Joleta is equally sinister?? under a surface chastity and almost costs Lymond his life as well as his honor. Miss Dunnett remains courageous in the face of complication and circumstance, but her villain manages to escape her as well as the hero. Still, she has penned another spirited pastiche of history and melodrama which has some claim to elegance and will make one on a readership addicted to rhetoric, romance and high minded heroics. (Kirkus Reviews)
Product 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.
See all Product Description
Brilliant, brawe and bonny Francis Crawford of Lymond has matched wits and swords with traitors in two earlier books: The Game of Kings (1961) and Queen's Play (1964). In The Disorderly Knights he appears fresh from service to the Queen Dowager at the French court to become involved in the most challenging duel of all. His enemy is Sir Graham (Gabriel) Reid Malett, seemingly saintly, greatly gifted Knight of the Order of St. John. The time is 1551, when the Turks assaulted Malta, and Lymond is there to help the Order, and to try to save Oonagh O'Dwyer, an old love and former mistress of the Irish leader O'Connor, presently in a liaison with the cowardly Governor of Gozo, and who is bearing Lymond's child. After the Malta episode ends disastrously, Gabriel joins Lymond in Scotland, where Lymond heads St. Mary's, a fighting force Mary of Guise fears, and which Gabriel ostensibly hopes will save the Order, but for which he has darker uses in mind.... His beautiful sister Joleta is equally sinister?? under a surface chastity and almost costs Lymond his life as well as his honor. Miss Dunnett remains courageous in the face of complication and circumstance, but her villain manages to escape her as well as the hero. Still, she has penned another spirited pastiche of history and melodrama which has some claim to elegance and will make one on a readership addicted to rhetoric, romance and high minded heroics. (Kirkus Reviews)
Product 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.
See all Product Description
Suggested Tags from Similar Products( What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|