Lord John Grey

Lord John Grey

John William Grey is a recurring secondary character in the Outlander series and the protagonist of his own series, both of which are written by Diana Gabaldon.

He first appeared in Dragonfly in Amber as a sixteen-year-old English soldier, though not yet commissioned, who chanced upon Jamie and Claire Fraser on the eve of the battle of Prestonpans. He made subsequent appearances in Voyager, Drums of Autumn, A Breath of Snow and Ashes and An Echo in the Bone, and showed up through a series of letters to Jamie and his family in The Fiery Cross. He has also appeared in a series of his own books that all take place during the time in Voyager in which Jamie is at Helwater. Though the Lord John stories and the main Outlander books can be understood independently of each other, there are events in each that will be more thoroughly and he was asain The Lord John books are shorter and focus on fewer plot threads than the main Outlander books, and can be generally categorized as mysteries. Lord John is a commissioned officer, a loyal British subject, a man of honor, and a homosexual at a time and place where that is a capital crime, creating a variety of internal and external conflicts. Though Lord John does have relationships and liaisons in these books, these are not the main focus of the books, which are primarily mysteries.

1. Lord John and the Hellfire Club, a short story. Originally published in PAST POISONS, ed. Maxim Jakubowski. Collected in Lord John and the Hand of Devils.
2. Lord John and the Private Matter, a novel.
3. Lord John and the Succubus, a novella, originally published in LEGENDS II: Short novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy, edited by Robert Silverberg. Collected in Lord John and the Hand of Devils.
4. Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade, a novel.
5. Lord John and the Haunted Soldier, a novella. Published only in Lord John and the Hand of Devils.
6. The Custom of the Army (novella), originally published in Warriors (anthology) (volume 1), edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois.
7. The Scottish Prisoner (A Lord John Novel). Released on November 29, 2011.
8. Lord John and the Plague of Zombies, a novella. Appeared in DOWN THESE STRANGE STREETS, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, released in October, 2011.