"Either take to the heather with me or else hang."
David Balfour's journey to gain his inheritance is fraught with deception and intrigue. Kidnapped by his uncle, he gladly makes the acquaintance of Alan Breck but when the two are reluctant witnesses to a political killing, they soon become prime suspects.
They are forced to flee for their lives across the hostile countryside of the Wester Highlands.
Set in 1751 during the turbulent years of the Jacobite rebellion, this gripping tale of murder and treachery remains today one of the greatest adventure stories ever written.