Customer Reviews
The Eagle has finally landed - By: R. N. Durrant, 02 Nov 2008 
Well I have finnally read the last bookin the Arthurian series by Jack Whyte.This completes a story that has kept me enthralled for the last decade.Firstly may I offer my thanks to Mister Whyte & also my disappointment, that he did not expand his story to include Arthur's side of the story for I didn't expect to have the final episode told from Clothar's view, I also felt that not enough time was spent with Arthurs boyhood friends & their contributions to the tale. But does this leave scope for future episodes? I hope so.As has been suggested this series has not followed the many other versions of King Arthur, but I believe Mr Whyte has created a very believable work that will be as enduring as Mallory's Morte D'arthur. So to any newcomer to this work I would say read this series & be thoroughly enthralled & entertained
Ninth in the Series - By: J. Chippindale, 12 Apr 2008 
Jack Whyte was born & raisedin Scotland, but has livedin Canada for the last forty odd years. He is the author of the Camulod series of books & has just had published the firstin a trilogy about probably the most famous Order of knights, ever to come through the pages of history, the Knights Templar.
This is the ninth volumein the continuation of the Camulod Chronicles a series of novels about the Arthurian legends. But anyone expecting the conventional, or Hollywood slant on the legend of Arthur, i.e. knights riding around on destriersin full body armour, something invented several hundred years after Arthur had gone to his grave, if he ever existed at all, will bein for a sharp shock.
The books are setin the 5th century AD a much more likely time for Arthur to have existed, a time when Britain, although free of the Romans, who had gone back across the channel to Rome, was still very much influenced by their occupation.
Granted Jack Whyte's version of the Arthurian legends does not sit well with everybody, but if you forget what you have read before about Arthur & after all that is only information published earlier by Sir Thomas Mallory & has very little credibilityin historical terms, & treat the books on their own merits then many will find them not only readable, but also enjoyable.
The Eagle is the story of the beginning of the famous or infamous Camelot. It is the beginning of the love triangle that has come down through the mists of time, involving three people whose love for one another knows no bounds. Those people are Arthur, his wife Guinevere & Lancelot, a man who has foundin Arthur a man whose ideals match his own. As the story progresses dark forces plot to stop Arthur from realizing his dream . . .
