# Checkmate

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- Book: [Checkmate](https://www.bookquiver.com/dorothy-dunnett/checkmate) ([Checkmate.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dorothy-dunnett/checkmate.md))
- Authors: [Dorothy Dunnett](https://www.bookquiver.com/dorothy-dunnett)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4194-626-9
- Published: 1999-01-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The year is 1557 and Francis Crawford of Lymond must serve the King of France for a year before he can return to Russia, where he believes his destiny lies. Yet the astrologer John Dee has said: It is not one thing you seek, but two; and the place for neither is Russia. Lymond, exercising his formidable military talents against the English, has no desire to discover the meaning of this prophecy. But Philippa, his wife-in-name only, has. And she devotes her days to a hazardous search for the truth about the past, and the future, of her enigmatic husband.