I mentioned that the Childe Cycle books are absolute classics. Dorsai!, Tactics of Mistake, The Final Encyclopedia, etc. The Dragon series is almost up to that level. For a few years in the early eighties I was a member of the Science Fiction Book Club, and among the books that I picked up was The Dragon and the George, I remember liking it, and in my trips to the used book stores, twenty years later, I subsequently picked up several more books in the series. I didn't get Dragon Knight, the second book in the series, until this April. I read a couple of them out of sequence. Although I would like to read them in order, each book is a complete story without leaving it as a cliffhanger.

James Eckert and his wife Angela have been transported from their twenieth century life, to a magic filled medieval period. Jim has become a knight, a low level magician, and can transform into a dragon and is part of the dragon community as well. Dickson has created a world with set rules for the way his characters can behave. I am sure it doesn't mesh with the real 14th century, but only an idealized version of it. There is a whole class structure, and the knights have a sense of honor that dominates how they can act. Jim, being a knight, has to follow these rules, and that's where the fun begins.

In this installment, the prince of England has been captured by France. Jim and all the other knights are honor bound to come up with a contingent of men to go into battle with the French. On their way to France Jim and Brian are approached by an emissary of the King, to rescue the prince. We find that the prince is being held by Malvinne, an AAA level magician, and that Malvinne has been corrupted by the Dark Powers.

The flow of the book follows Jim the whole way, but is broken into many sequences that build and then are resolved, and each of these kind of build the overall plot of the book.

The series is excellent. I've read four of these and I'll definitely read the others. I pretty much like everything that I've read from Dickson.