Jacobites By Name: Third Time Lucky

Edinburgh 2025. Six years after Brexit. The New Georgian wing of the Tories is in firm control and determined to take the UK back to the 1700s.To avert a second independence referendum Westminster have appointed a Viceroy to run Scotland. Thousands of police from other parts of the UK are being flown in to assert control. Meanwhile the Scottish Government''s black-ops department, the Tourism Advanced Research Projects Agency, is working on weaponising midges as a doomsday weapon to force Westminster to concede independence and a group of brilliant Edinburgh University professors is colluding with the Vatican to stage a third Jacobite rebellion.Science fiction mixes with political satire and occasional heresy in a lighthearted romp with more jokes than Dan Brown and less swearing than Irvine Welsh.