The Free Fishers

By John Buchan

Subjects: History, Fiction, romance, historical, Fiction, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Fiction, action & adventure, Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, England, fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Scottish Historical fiction

Description: Set in a bleak Yorkshire hamlet, this is a tale of treason and romance. Anthony Lammas, Professor of Logic at St Andrews University, becomes entangled in a web of intrigue that threatens the country. His boyhood allegiance to a brotherhood of deep-sea fishermen involves him and his handsome ex-pupil with a beautiful, but dangerous, woman.