The Lost Skin (novel)

 was the fourth novel in the Lethbridge-Stewart line of hardcover novellas, released by Candy Jar Books in 2018.

Publisher's summary
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is on leave in New York, but in Scotland word reaches the Fifth Operational Corps that Harold Chorley, journalist and pain in Lethbridge-Stewart’s rear, has got wind of the Corps’ presence in Stirling.

A plan is set in motion to take Chorley on a wild goose chase to John o Groats, as far from the Corps as possible. RSM Samson Ware and Professor Travers travel to the edge of Scotland, leaving a trail of breadcrums, which are picked by Chorley and his old chum, Larry Greene.

But it soon becomes clear that there is a real mystery in John o Groats, a strange link between Mhairi Docherty, a woman from Huna, and the Orkney Islands, and the local legend of the Selkie. To protect Mhairi, Samson needs to sideline Chorley and Greene, but the ever-erratic Professor Travers has other plans.

What is drawing Mhairi to the Orkney Islands? What hold does Chorley have over Greene? And, more importantly, what links Chorley and Greene to the secret history of Mhairi?

Plot
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Characters

 * Anne Travers
 * Sally Wright
 * Edward Travers
 * Samson Ware
 * William Bishop
 * Walter Douglas
 * Harold Chorley
 * Larry Greene
 * Charlie Redfern

Continuity

 * This story occurs concurrently with PROSE: Times Squared; a telephone conversation between Anne and Sally links the two.
 * Anne refers to her employment with the Vault. (PROSE: Beast of Fang Rock)
 * Chorley has been quiet since the business with Dominex. (PROSE: Mutually Assured Domination)
 * Travers' time in the Vault's base in the London Underground is taking its toll on his mind. (PROSE: The Dogs of War)