Author

Publication

2008 - Quercus, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

78,000 words, Guess

Page Count

312 pages

Identifiers

and 9 more
  • ISBN-139781847243164
  • ISBN-101847243150
  • ISBN-101847243169
  • LibraryThing5174715
  • Library of Congress Control Number2008411411
  • OCLC Control Number181422992
  • OCLC Control Number861343084
  • Better World Books9781847243157
  • Open LibraryOL16950197M

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6057.R388 R66 2008
  • LCCPR6057.R388

Description

A motorcyclist with a stolen ring walks into Rothiemurchus Forest until he finds a quiet place to die. A woman with an eventful past has signed the Official Secrets Act and gone to Dumfries to forget a man and keep out of trouble. In comfortable Crieff, a retired historian publishes an obscure article on the survival of the Stone of Destiny, then has his throat cut. A man with a long blade in a tan holster under his suit, a fondness for bird-watching, and memories of his short-lived Punk band Anger Management, has taken a commission to retrieve an object so valuable and mythic it might not exist. A rugby-playing half-Maori named Leo Nagotoa stands in the sleet by Romanno Bridge in the Scottish Borders, trying to thumb a lift when his Destiny slithers up alongside him. The hunt for the crowning stone of the Dalriadic kings, the Stone of Scone - it is worth enough to make life cheap for some and dear to others - has begun.

Subjects

Topics

Genres

  • Fiction

Other Editions

  • Romanno bridgeQuercus2008-01-01

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