Dear Mr. Cornwell, I just wanted to say “Thank you” for your wonderful books. Last Christmas, my wife gave me _The Winter King_ as a present on the suggestion of a friend from Chesham, England. That same friend gave me _Enemy of God_ for my birthday, and though I was slow to engage due to work responsibilities, a trip to Texas gave me the necessary time to become completely engrossed, and then to start my own quest for _Excalibur_, unsuccessful at first in Texas, but on my return home I found a last copy in a shop in Hoboken, NJ. I have since been neglecting some of my work reading during my train commutes to finish _Excalibur_ and begin _The Last Kingdom_. My wife and I have just returned from a two-week holiday in Scotland, which was the perfect setting to complete both _The Last Kingdom_ and _Stonehenge_, and during a stop in Ft William, a bookseller had both _The Pale Horseman_ and _The Lords of the North_. I look forward to their contribution to my further dereliction of work duties. ;) It’s a little difficult for me to explain what draws me to your writing, but it’s something about the visceral and capricious qualities of those times, where at a moment’s notice everything can be taken from you and you become completely helpless, yet the protagonist, through a combination of luck, help and his/her own quick wits, manages to persevere and also rise above the prevailing supersititions and ruthlessness. It makes me wonder what I might have been like in one of those time periods, though I tend to doubt I would have lasted more than five minutes. I am a miserable student of history, but your books also make me want to pursue some historical non-fiction. Thanks again. Cheers, Ed Trembicki-Guy Dover, NJ p.s. It must be very difficult to avoid anachronisms with the time periods of your works, but I had to smile when a man in _Stonehenge_ reached for the gunwale of his boat. ;) Ed Trembicki-Guy