In 1642 Jack Marvel, a young Oxford scholar, is drawn into a tavern brawl, entrusted with a secret errand for King Charles, and sent riding west into a country torn by civil war. His companion on the road is a slim youth in a cloak of amber satin who is not at all what he seems, and their flight through pine woods, inns and a ship’s hold leads toward Cornwall.
An early triumph for Quiller-Couch, a cavalier romance in the tradition of Stevenson told with real zest. Download the free EPUB.