Midwinter

Step into the snow-dusted, politically charged landscape of 1745 England as Alastair Maclean, a young Scottish agent, covertly rallies support for Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite uprising. Navigating a treacherous world of hidden loyalties and whispered betrayals, Maclean suspects a mole within his own ranks, jeopardizing the Stuart cause. His perilous mission entwines with the enigmatic Amos Midwinter, a philosopher-king of "Old England" whose hidden network offers unexpected aid, and, most curiously, with the historical figure of Samuel Johnson, whose mysterious silence during these tumultuous years Buchan artfully fills with a secret sympathy for the Jacobite dream and the nascent stirrings of his famed literary genius.