CHECKMATE is the sixth book of Dorothy Dunnett's famous Lymond chronicles, relating the adventures of Frances Crawford of Lymond, Scottish soldier fortune, scholar and wit. They have woven the threads of the sixth century into a web of suspense that is entangled only in this, the final volume, the magnificent climax to the whole series. France 1557. Lymond is bound over to serve the King for one year, after which he will be free to return to Russia where he believes his destiny lies. And yet the astrologer John Dee has said: "It is not one thing you seek, but two; and the place for neither is Russia....."
- ISBN10 0446313017
- ISBN13 9780446313018
- Publish Date 1 September 1984 (first published 24 April 1975)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 November 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Warner Books (NY)
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Language English