Fraser’s tone with Lord John is frosty, and it doesn’t seem as if he will come through for his friend. If you’ve read the Outlander series, you’ll know what that means. Jamie is working in the stables of the Dunsany family, and Lord John arrives shortly after the death of Geneva Dunsay. It takes him back to Scotland, where he must talk to Jamie Fraser about his connections among the Jacobites. Time is of the essence as John investigates an incident he barely remembers as a child. While they are doing this, Lord John stumbles onto a mystery involving his late father and the possibility that he might have been the victim of a murder made to look like a suicide. They are introduced to their new “stepbrother” Percy Wainwright with the request that they find a place for him in the company of soldiers going off to fight. Their father died seventeen years earlier, of an apparent suicide with whispers of corruption.
Lord John and his brother Hal are preparing to do battle when their mother announces she is remarrying. It is set in 1758, during the Seven Years’ War. Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade is the second novel in the Lord John series. With this trilogy of novels, Gabaldon fills us in on Lord John’s background.
He is first introduced to the story when Jamie Fraser languishes in a Scottish prison following the Jacobite rebellion and became a recurring character. One of the great peripheral characters in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series is that of Lord John Grey. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.All Creatures Great And Small (Original Series).
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