Pawn In Frankincense

Lymond Chronicles Series, Book 4

Plot

For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.Pawn in Frankincense is the fourth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles. Somewhere within the bejeweled labyrinth of the Ottoman empire, a child is hidden. Now his father, Francis Crawford of Lymond, soldier of fortune and the exiled heir of Scottish nobility, is searching for him while ostensibly engaged on a mission to the Turkish Sultan. At stake is a pawn in a cutthroat game whose gambits include treason, enslavement, and murder. With a Foreword by the author. The six novels in the series are as follows: The Game of Kings (1961) Queens' Play (1964) The Disorderly Knights (1966) Pawn in Frankincense (1969) The Ringed Castle (1971) Checkmate (1975) Pawn in Frankincense (1969) Lymond embarks upon a hunt for the child who may or may not be his, crossing Europe and North Africa following the trail of clues his malevolent adversary has laid for him. Reaching the glittering court of the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, Lymond must summon all of his courage and willpower to win freedom for himself, his child and his companions. Main fictional characters Francis Crawford of Lymond Jerott Blyth, childhood friend of Francis Crawford, French Merchant and Knight of St John Jubrael Pasha, officer at the court of Suleiman the Magnificent Joleta Reid Malett, Sir Graham's younger sister The Dame de Doubtance, caster of horoscopes, from France Georges Gaultier, her associate Marthe, his niece Philippa Somerville, Daughter of Kate Somerville Mikal, a pilgrim of Love Guzel (Kiaya Khatun), mistress of the Harem of Dragut Rais Onophrion Zitwitz, master of Lymond's household Salablanca, Moor Main historical characters Leone Strozzi, of Florence, Prior of Capua in the Order of the Knights Hospitaller of St. John Salah Rais, Viceroy of Algiers Aga Morat, Turkish Governor of Tripoli Gabriel de Luetz, Baron et Seigneur d'Aramon et de Valabregues, French Ambassador to Turkey Roxelana Sultan (Khourrem), wife of Suleiman the Magnificent Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of Turkey and Lord of the Ottoman Empire Jean Chesnau, French Chargé d'Affaires at Constantinople Main locations Baden, in Switzerland Algiers, in modern-day Algeria Bône, modern-day Annaba (and ancient Hippo) in Algeria Monastir, in modern-day Tunisia Mehedia, modern-day Mahdia in Tunisia Zakynthos, an island off the coast of Greece Aleppo, in Syria Djerba, an island off the coast of modern-day Tunisia Thessalonika, in Greece Zuara, in modern-day Libya Chios, in modern-day Greece, close to the coast of Turkey Constantinople, capital city of the Ottoman Empire