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Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped has long been considered a masterpiece of high trip. In The Low Highway, Wayne Lear reinvents this typical as a satirical, queer, coming-of-age report. In 1750 Scotland, young Charles Gordon reaches adulthood ignorant of his family's heroic past in the Jacobite Rebellion. He pieces out to discover the reality about his father, but instead is kidnapped by mercenaries and sold into slavery as the plaything of several corrupt military officers. But Charlie's talents, in and out of bed, gain him powerful friends as well as dangerous foes. The wrong priest, Lebecque, violent Captain Robert, depraved General Wilmott all donate to Charlie's 'education'. Eventually leading a makeshift military of sex-crazed layabouts, Charlie encounters the might of the English causes. Will he triumph, or could it be better to retreat to the protection of his sybaritic lifestyle? Wayne Lear expertly interweaves spies and counterspies, scheming servants and sadistic captains, tavern trysts and jail orgies, into this delightfully erotic work that may take its place alongside his acclaimed novels The Back Passing and Hot Valley.
