Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles
1897
Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles
1897
The true story of the most notorious double agent in Jacobite history. Alastair Ruadh MacDonnell, known as Pickle the Spy, was a Scottish Highlander who fought at Culloden before transforming himself into one of the Hanoverian government's most valuable informants. After 1750, he embedded himself in the inner circle of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Bonnie Prince Charlie himself, feeding intelligence to London while his former comrades remained oblivious to his betrayal. Andrew Lang draws on previously unpublished Stuart papers and secret correspondence to reconstruct this extraordinary career of deception, revealing how a man could live for years between two loyalities, ultimately betraying the cause he once fought for. The result is a gripping account of political intrigue, moral compromise, and the desperate years after Culloden when the Jacobite dream died slowly in the Scottish Highlands.
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