The ChessmenFin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game hunting taking place on the island. This mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill a local poacher, Fins teenage intimate, and possessor of a long buried secret. But when this reunion takes a violent, sinister turn and Fin puts together the fractured pieces of the past, he realizes that revealing the truth could destroy the