Disorderly Knights... My second and, I promise, last plea

Ok you guys, I'm serious here. Stayed up way too late the other night finishing this book.

Third in the Lymond series by Dorothy Dunnett. My brother attempted to read the first one, The Game of Kings, and couldn't finish it. It is VERY involved but....the reward is oh so sweet. Truly. If you love well researched historical fiction, have a penchant for foreign languages, or just haven't read a really great book in a long time check her out. They are literary deliciousness (my writing, however, is not!)