Another excellent entry, this time focusing on Gold's activities in Frankish-ruled Greece, a really interesting time period with tons of political intrigue as French and Italian feudal lords scheme, funded by Italian bankers with the Roman Emperor in the background as the nominal overlord. It's a terribly complicated cluster of plots and alliances without even considering the Turks to the east who are religious enemies but also convenient allies.

Like the previous entries in the series, it's definitely a page-turner. Constant military action, brilliantly described, politics, religion, all served with an undercurrent of wit. We know that Gold's never in any real danger, as he's telling the story from 20 years in the future, but Cameron does such a good job describing battles and fighting that that fact can be forgotten in the heat of the moment.

This novel seems edited a bit better than the others, there are less minor typos and grammatical errors. A minor gripe that I don't think I even mentioned when discussing the other books, but it's improved here. Nice to see, and I wish they'd do another passthrough of Cameron's Red Knight series as the errors - both grammatical and continuity - were far more egregious than anything in this series.

Excellent historical fiction, and highly-rated for a reason. Cameron is the best author writing this style of novel that I've found yet.