By Peter L.
Lyons, Historical Fantasy, 409 pages
Cover art by
Richard Stroud
Campbell
Robson was cursed by the man he has accidentally killed. Over endless time he
is incarcerated in prisons through no fault of his own and seems condemned to
live out his endless life suffering the depredations of various forms of
punishment
Excerpt:
“There’s
something I do not understand, Prisoner Robson. Your record speaks of a
ruffian, a wild, uncontrollable convict who would have to be a lower class,
uneducated peasant. Yet I see here before me a man who speaks with evidence of
education, even culture, in his voice. It says in your record that you have
spent thirty years in the prisons of New South Wales, yet I do not see evidence
of that. I do not know what I should be seeing, but what I do see is not
consistent with the evidence presented to me in your record.”
Campbell did
not speak. He wondered what Herrington was leading up to. The commandant leaned
forward and picked up the sheet of paper in front of him and waved it at
Campbell.
“Do you know
what this is?” he asked quietly.
Campbell stared.
“No,” he said shortly.
“It is a
ticket to freedom,” Herrington said. “Or it could be, if someone named Campbell Robson
was lucky enough.”
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