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Free to Get Jamie MacGillivray: The Renegade's Journey

by John Sayles

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    Spanning 13 years, two continents, several wars, and many smoke-filled and bloody battlefields, John Sayles?s thrilling historical and cinematic epic invites comparison with Diana Gabaldon, George R. R. Martin, Phillippa Gregory, and Charles Dickens.It begins in the highlands of Scotland in 1746, at the Battle of Culloden, the last desperate stand of the Stuart ?pretender? to the throne of the Three Kingdoms, Bonnie Prince Charlie, and his rabidly loyal supporters. Vanquished with his comrades by the forces of the Hanoverian (and Protestant) British crown, the novel?s eponymous hero, Jamie MacGillivray, narrowly escapes a roadside execution only to be recaptured by the victors and shipped to Marshalsea Prison (central to Charles Dickens?s Hard Times) where he cheats the hangman a second time before being sentenced to transportation and indentured servitude in colonial America "for the term of his natural life." His travels are paralleled by those of Jenny Ferguson, a poor, village

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