The Chessmen

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Title:      The Chessmen
Categories:      The Lewis Trilogy
BookID:      960
Authors:      Peter May
ISBN-10(13):      9781623656041
Publisher:      Quercus
Publication date:      2015
Edition:      Quercus Reprint
Number of pages:      308
Owner Email:      [email protected]
Language:      English
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Living again of the Isle of Lewis, ex-Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is working as a security officer for a local landowner. While investigating illegal activity on the estate Fin encounters the elusive poacher and former childhood friend, and bandmate, Whistler Macaskill.

 
When Fin catches up with Whistler among the windswept hills of the estate, the two witness a freak natural phenomenon--a bog burst--which drains a loch of all its water in a flash, revealing a mud-encased light aircraft with a sickeningly familiar moniker on its side.
 
Both men immediately know what they will find inside: the body of Roddy Mackenzie, a friend whose flight disappeared more than seventeen years before. But when Whistler's face appears to register something other than shock, an icy chill of apprehension overtakes Fin. What secret has Whistler been hiding from him, and everyone else on the island? Fin is unprepared for how the truth about the past will alter the course of the future.
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"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!" King Lear (Edmund) Act I, scene ii

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William Shakespeare

"A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood” Henry VIII, Act 1, Scene 1

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

"How well he's read, to reason against reading!" Love's Labour's Lost, Act 1, Scene1

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

“Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.” The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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