FORTRESS IN THE FORTH (JACOBITE NOVELS) (KLIO PRESS) (PB)

Jane Lane (1905 - 1978) was the pen name of Elaine Kidner Dakers, and is best known for her historical novels set in the 17th and 18th century. In the summer of 1691, four imprisoned Jacobite soldiers, led by the intrepid Humphrey Craddocke, surprise the governor and guards of the Bass Rock. For almost three years they repel attempts to retake it, before playing one of the most astounding games of bluff in history. 'I read Jane Lane's books with mounting admiration for both their content and style […] Merging fact and fiction into essential truth, she has produced novels of quite extraordinary emotional power and exciting narrative pace’ - John Prebble.