Acting sergeant Thorolf Zigramson of the Fourth Commonwealth Foot, an aspiring scholar but a soldier by default, somewhat reluctantly rescues Yvette, the beautiful countess of Grintz, from the... This description may be from another edition of this product.
I thought this was a very nice, typical example of the deCamp style. I think it may be slow going for some, liek the previous reviewer, because of his fondness for archaic language, but once you get used to it, it rolls right along. I'm always sorry when one of his books has to come to an end. I liked Yvette and the interplay between her and the hero and this books was one of the bawdier of his output, which is always nice for a rowsing good time. Perhaps not as good as The Reluctant King, but solid nevertheless
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