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DIANA GABALDON - GEBRAUCHT SEVEN STONES TO STAN...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A magnificent collection of Outlander short fiction-including two
never-before-published novellas-featuring Jamie Fraser  Lord John Grey  Master Raymond  and
many more  from Diana Gabaldon  Among the seven spellbinding pieces there is "The Custom of the
Army " which begins with Lord John Grey being shocked by an electric eel and ends at the Battle
of Quebec. Then comes "The Space Between " where it is revealed that the Comte St. Germain is
not dead  Master Raymond appears  and a widowed young wine dealer escorts a would-be novice to
a convent in Paris. In "A Plague of Zombies " Lord John unexpectedly becomes military governor
of Jamaica when the original governor is gnawed by what probably wasn't a giant rat. "A Leaf on
the Wind of All Hallows" is the moving story of Roger MacKenzie's parents during World War II.
In "Virgins " Jamie Fraser  aged nineteen  and Ian Murray  aged twenty  become mercenaries in
France  no matter that neither has yet bedded a lass or killed a man. But they're trying. . . .
"A Fugitive Green" is the story of Lord John's elder brother  Hal  and a seventeen-year-old
rare book dealer with a sideline in theft  forgery  and blackmail. And finally  in "Besieged "
Lord John learns that his mother is in Havana-and that the British Navy is on their way to lay
siege to the city.   Filling in mesmerizing chapters in the lives of characters readers have
followed over the course of thousands of pages  Gabaldon's genius is on full display throughout
this must-have collection.  "Gabaldon is in fine form . . . weaving together characters' lives
connecting plot points  and showing tantalizing glimpses of the larger Outlander world  of
which this reader can never get enough."-Historical Novels Review

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