A conte in Trapnel's most playful style, this is the tale of a quest, of trust and duplicity, of the battle between realism and romanticism. When journalist Thomas Stone is sent by his paper to the south of France to investigate a man who has made an extraordinary claim against the British Crown, events take on their own momentum.
Set against the background of the Jacobite succession, nothing is what it seems as the characters travel towards a very unexpected denouement.
Paperback; 180 pages