Dear Mr. Cornwell, Your novels have for years given me much pleasure. I recently finished reading the latest one in the Grail series and am now in the middle of Sword Song. Three problems have been bothering me that I thought I would mention to you. First, your antagonists exert enormous energy during their battles, but the hero never seems to become weary at the end — no emotional or physical let down or exhaustion. This seems very unreal. Second, in Sword Song Uhtred, the narrator, in describing the battle before Ludd’s Gate mentions a time interval of ten minutes — a jarring anachronism. And finally a howler: Father Pyrlig mangles Sigefrid’s sword arm on p. 64 of Sword Song, but later on before the walls of London Sigefrid wields a battle ax, seemingly with no impairment. Sincerely, Jay Bachrach