Dear Mr. Cornwell, I loved your Warlord Trilogy. My wife, who is a big King Arthur fan, is now reading it as well and is enjoying them. We both speculated (and this is pure conjecture) that you modeled the description of Saxon Cerdic, with his blond hair, clear-cut features, calm demeanor and clerk-like bearing, on the well-known twentieth century image of the high-level Nazi beaurocrat/monster (Adloph Eichmann being the best image of this); quiet, banal, calm, orderly and evil. Considering the German connection (Cerdic, being a Saxon afer all), we were wondering if your description of Cerdic was in fact a subtle joke on the modern archetype. Were we completely wrong about this? Michael Newman