Library Journal
Another hot new series from Penguin, "Great Books for Boys" offers a handful of top adventure stories from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Each volume sports a nice vintage-looking cover to complete the spell. Great fun (and girls can read them, too!).
—Michael Rogers
AudioFile
The story is full of swordplay (and a little gunplay), barely repressed passion, political maneuvering, and severely tested personal honor.”
Telegraph (London)
This is one of those rattling good yarns whose heart is so solidly in the right place that one is prepared to forgive some shoddy writing at the margins.”
Sunday Times (London)
This fast-moving, well-placed romance reaffirmed the pride of English men in what they thought they had :a sense of justice, profound honour and adroitness, all worn lightly.”
New York University Nathan R. Teitel
The tale speeds like an arrow, never deviating from its appointed course. There are no loopholes, only a rising tide of intrigue and excitement that never abates.”
From the Publisher
"A hugely enjoyable rip-roaring adventure of chivalry and romance." — The New European
