GUNS IN THE NORTH
P.F. Chisholm
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Guns in the North
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.
The Border Marches are lawless badlands, peopled by cattle-rustlers, horse-thieves, arsonists, kidnappers and murderers. Spawned of centuries of Anglo-Scottish conflict, they are a festering sore that breeds treason and rebellion, threatening the fragile stability of Elizabeth I’s realm. With just a handful of horseman and a taciturn sergeant with a dark past, Carey, in his lace-collared, pearl-sashed courtly finery, will be expected to bring order to this bloody flux.
Carey has his own reasons for taking the post (closer to his true love’s arms, farther from his creditors’ gimlet eyes), but the courtier may find, in this land of duplicity and blood-feud, that he’s merely traded one set of troubles for another.
Plunging readers straight into the raucous world of late-sixteenth century border reivers and unfettered Elizabethan intrigue, Guns in the North is 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.
Contents
Welcome Page
About Guns in the North
Introduction
A Famine of Horses
Foreword
Sunday, 18th June 1592, Noon
Sunday, 18th June 1592, Noon
Sunday, 18th June 1592, Afternoon
Sunday, 18th June 1592, Evening
Sunday, 18th June, Night
Monday, 19th June, Morning
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Tuesday, 20th June, Before Dawn
Tuesday, 20th June, Morning
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Tuesday, 20th June, Afternoon
Wednesday, 21st June, 2 A.M.
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