I have loved all of Rafael Sabatini's books for decades. I read through a handful a few years ago and then took a break and read a bunch of other stuff. I recently came back to Rafael when I found some of his books for free on my Kindle. This is one of those, and Viola' the love affair has been rekindled.Sabatini has a way with words. You feel like your reading a sacred text almost. Just the flair; the way he crafts his sentences. It's like one part King James old English and one part poetry; not too much of either, but just enough. But even more: he tells a great story always.Reading Sabatini is much like reading a Dumas novel, without requiring quite so much concentration. The words flow instead of having to be interpreted.Really, read Sabatini.