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'The Highwayman' is a lively, entertaining novel set just before the Georgian era. Its hero is Harry Boyce, an intelligent young man with a good deal of personality but hampered by poverty and the fact that he is the illegitimate son of an adventurer and scamp who exists only just on the right side of the law - and not always that. Harry happens upon a highway robbery and with languid resourcefulness rescues Alison Lambourne and her servant from the robber. Mystifyingly, he sees a hastening group of horsemen and glimpses the old Duke of Marlborough in the same area. Harry has not seen his errant father for years, but Captain Boyce re-enters his life and charms his son's aristocratic employer, Mr. Waverton and his pompous mother. It is a while before Harry realizes what his father is plotting...