Oh, yes. This one. The one they talk about in hushed whispers. A game played out between two masters from one end of the Mediterranean to the other, one a sadistic genius, the other a man of brilliance and control aware that he is balancing way too many interests to do anything other than manoeuvre with an inhumanly clinical skill until the opportunity comes to act decisively. Chasing a kidnapped child and his mother with a strange motley of friends he'd rather weren't there and a misanthropic pawn broker and horologist and his shocking and incomprehensible assistant, Francis Crawford of Lymond and Sevigny embarks on a fearful and harrowing voyage that culminates in one of the most tense, agonising emotionally devastating set-pieces in literature. A truly magnificent novel, and a wrenching turning point for the whole series.