Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles #6)
Dorothy Dunnett
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· 26 ratings · 581 pages · Published: 25 Mar 1975
Sixth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Checkmate takes place in 1557, where Francis Crawford of Lymond is once again in France, leading an army against England. But even as the Scots adventurer succeeds brilliantly on the battlefield, his haunted past becomes a subject of intense interest to forces on both sides.
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