This is one of my favourite Duggan novels. Set in the 1200's in the Crusader state in the Peloponnesus, the story is intimate for a Duggan novel. While the politics of a successor state of the Byzantine empire do intrude, the major plot is a love story but a sadly destructive one. A knight from Wales, William Breiwerr takes service with Geoffrey de Briwerr a baron of the small state. William watches the development of Geoffrey's adulterous love and sees it result in the banishment of his lord from a respected position to that of a wandering place seeker, which was Geoffrey's status at the beginning of the tale. ( )

I read this as a teenager, and it was and is enjoyable and historically fairly accurate, illuminating a minor part of Crusader history. the pont of view charactor is particularly well done. ( )