Diana Gabaldon. Dragonfly in amber. Book 1. Divided for centuries (№ 429446)

Do you think there was no debauchery in the eighteenth century? Oh, nothing is new under the moon! It's just that in those days he was even worse, at least in the sense that no one cared, if only outwardly everything looked decent. And Black Jack Randall was a soldier commanding a garrison in Scotland. His task was to keep the local clans under control, and his enormous powers were officially sanctioned.