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1 The cold rays of the moon streaked down from the night sky, bouncing off the rolling surf, which burst into suspended sprays of white where isolated waves crashed into the rocks of the shoreline. This stretch of beach between the towering boulders of the Costa Brava was the execution ground....

1 The cold rays of the moon streaked down from the night sky, bouncing off the rolling surf, which burst into suspended sprays of white where isolated waves crashed into the rocks of the shoreline. This stretch of beach between the towering boulders of the Costa Brava was the execution ground....

Chapter OneHamish Grieve, as his surname might suggest,ihad been a gillie for the Laird of Earn for forty-jfour years. Before that he'd been apprenticedfas a joiner, receiving his signed indentures and freedom on the attainment of his twenty-first birthday; at which point he'd given up working with...