“Smoking” Joe Johnstone, an inspector with the Carlisle City Police, chases a saboteur wreaking havoc in the western marches of Britain during World War One. This reiver has nothing to do with the border reivers, apart from the location, but it’s a ripping yarn all the same.
The Steel Bonnets by George MacDonald Fraser
Possibly the gold-standard for the history of the Border Reivers, the lawless clans, the original gangsters, that scratched a living on the border between Scotland and England until the start of the seventeenth century, when James IV and I unified the crowns.
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