Lord John and the Brotherhood of the ..., Diana Gabaldon
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the ..., Diana Gabaldon
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Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade

Author: Diana Gabaldon

Narrator: Jeff Woodman

Unabridged: 15 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/26/2007

Synopsis

Diana Gabaldon, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander saga, brings back one of her most compelling characters: Lord John Grey. Here Gabaldon weaves together the strands of Lord John's secret and public lives-a shattering family mystery, a love affair with potentially disastrous consequences, and a war that stretches from the Old World to the New. It's been seventeen years since Lord John's father, the Duke of Pardloe, was found dead, a pistol in his hand and accusations of his role as a Jacobite agent staining forever a family's honor. Now unlaid ghosts from the past are stirring. Lord John's brother has mysteriously received a page of their late father's missing diary-and John is convinced that someone is taunting the Grey family with secrets from the grave. So he turns to the only man he can trust: the Scottish Jacobite James Fraser. But war, a forbidden affair, and Fraser's own secrets will complicate Lord John's quest-until James Fraser yields the missing piece of an astounding puzzle and Lord John must decide whether his family's honor is worth his life.

About Diana Gabaldon

American author, Diana J. Gabaldon, grew up in Flagstaff Arizona, where her father, Tony Gabaldon, served as an Arizona State Senator for sixteen years. Author Gabaldon received degrees from Northern Arizona University, and the University of California. Her degrees were centered around Zoology and Marine Biology. She worked in the field of her degrees for several years, then decided to just try her hand at writing a novel.

Gabaldon did research for her "practice novel" the old fashioned way, through reference books and periodicals......to quote her, "the Worldwide Web did not exist back then". After posting a short excerpt of her book on CompuServe Literary Forum, an author introduced her to a literary agent. He accepted the representation of this new author based on an unfinished first novel, which she had entitled Cross Stitch. U. S. publishers changed that first book in a trilogy (that was required by contract) to Outlander.

In 2014, the Outlander series was comprised of eight published novels. In August of 2014, the Outlander tv series premiered on Starz in the U.S.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Isis on December 04, 2013

I dithered about this. I feel a little odd giving a guilty-pleasure just-for-fun book like this five stars, but when I compare it to what I have recently given four, well, I have no choice. Because I loved this so very, very much. This is the kind of book I want to write, the kind of book I wish ther......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on February 09, 2017

I love Lord John Grey. I kind of want to be best friends with him. Or, at least take him out for drinks and commiserate about how he has absolute shit luck with romance. He seems okay with his life, but I just feel so bad for him, like, all the time. Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade is the......more

Goodreads review by Kimberly on January 13, 2008

I read this book after finishing Gabaldon's A Breath of Snow and Ashes. Thank goodness I found out it was out as it restored my faith in Gabaldon's skill as a writer and storyteller. The plot mixes an important "whodunit" as well as insight into John's personal life as a man and a soldier. The pacin......more

Goodreads review by Chris on June 13, 2024

3.5 stars. I thought this second entry into the Lord John series was much better than the first. The mystery was much more straight forward, and I thought there was more detail in bringing the culture of the day to life including army life. Besides a mystery surrounding the scandal in Lord John's fa......more

Goodreads review by Res on September 20, 2007

The one where Lord John's mother remarries, which sets in motion new dangers, new revelations about his father's disgrace and death, and a relationship with an attractive new stepbrother. I like Lord John a great deal, but I don't like Lord John books very much. Partly this is just a book/reader mis......more

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