The Disorderly Knights
The third volume in The Lymond Chronicles, the highly renowned series of historical novels by Dorothy Dunnett, Disorderly Knights takes place in 1551, when Francis Crawford of Lymond is dispatched to embattled Malta, to assist the Knights of Hospitallers in defending the island against the Turks....
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The third volume in The Lymond Chronicles, the highly renowned series of historical novels by Dorothy Dunnett, Disorderly Knights takes place in 1551, when Francis Crawford of Lymond is dispatched to embattled Malta, to assist the Knights of Hospitallers in defending the island against the Turks. But shortly the swordsman and scholar discovers that the greatest threat to the Knights lies within their own ranks, where various factions vie secretly for master.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679777458 (0679777458)
ASIN: 679777458
Publish date: June 24th 1997
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 503
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Historical Romance,
16th Century,
Scotland
Series: The Lymond Chronicles (#3)
My abitity to put my thoughts to words has rapidly diminished in the last few months and this author and her novels deserve more than my usual messy ramblings. However, it is how it is. I really liked Kate. And Philippa. I liked them in The Game of Kings, I loved them here, from the first "It was...
Francis Crawford of Lymond is sent by the French King to the Island of Malta where the Knights Hospitallers are threatened by an invasion from the Turks. While there Francis is caught up in the politics of the Knights, in particular one Graham Malett who the reader will discover is not at all what h...