I find it most telling that others cannot figure out this is a tie in to the rest of the stories that are coming. David Drake not NOT leave his fans in the lurch! So far Pal has operated in the way I would have expected from his character! Not a huge book, but for the price… more to come! I await!!

I enjoy reading Drake’s writings. His character’s seem 3 dimensionally human, though generally not particularly complex. Of course the subject matter doesn’t really demand complex characters to make a story that seems realistic. Perhaps it is the difference between land (Hammer’s troops) and sea (e.g., Aubrey, Hornblower, and ? Leary).

More disjointed than the first two books, but not as satisfying as a collection of short stories.