Democrat

When the radical lawyer, Thomas Muir, discovers his innocent clients are being convicted as state policy, he strives to give them a voice in the political arena. But revealing the establishment to be corrupt and immoral leaves his own freedoms under attack and with his soulmate - an exiled client - he's forced into a perilous ocean odyssey pursued by the British Government, its navy and its allies. The Democrat is a lightning paced global thriller voyaging from Edinburgh to the ends of the earth, from Bordeaux to Botany Bay, Vancouver to Vera Cruz, Cuba to Cadiz. It's the true story of one person's devotion to democracy that inspires Robert Burns' most famous poem and influences Thomas Paine, Wolf Tone, Talleyrand, Napoleon and the first President of the United States. Written and researched during Arab struggles for freedom and Scottish decisions concerning independence, this is an historical novel for our time, an amazing true story and a stunning literary debut.