Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped gets a gay makeover in this witty, hard-core picaresque novel set in 18th-century Scotland. Against the dramatic backdrop of the Jacobite Rebellion, The Low Road follows wealthy naïf  Charles Gordon as he leaves home to navigate a treacherous world of political and sexual intrigue. With his good looks and irresistible endowments, Charles finds plenty of men willing to lend a helping hand—and more. When he's not busy bedding a sexy stable hand, or a pack of horny pirates, or a regiment of lust-starved troops, Charles finds himself plotting to free the man he loves from jail, even if it means donning crinolines and a bonnet! Author James Lear expertly interweaves spies and counterspies, scheming servants and sadistic captains, tavern trysts and prison orgies, into this delightfully erotic work that can take its place alongside his acclaimed novels The Back Passage, Hot Valley, The Palace of Varieties, and the Lambda Literary Awards finalist The Secret Tunnel.

"James Lear's novels have dominated gay erotic fiction charts since publication. Just a few pages in, the secret of Lear's success becomes blindingly apparent... But it's not just the sex that keeps you reading. This isn't porn accompanied by a wah-wah guitar, this is porn to the strains of Beethoven's Ode to Joy, each vividly-realized ejaculation accompanied by a fanfare and the crashing of cymbals." —Time Out

JAMES LEAR is the nom de plume of a prolific and acclaimed novelist. As James Lear, he is the author of The Back Passage, The Secret Tunnel, Hot Valley, and the Palace of Varieties. He lives in London.

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