The third eagle

lessons along a minor string

261 pages

English language

Published Dec. 30, 1990 by Bantam Books.

ISBN:
978-0-553-28356-3
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OCLC Number:
20939945

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4 stars

This book felt episodic, each chapter a new adventure in the life of Wanbli. Towards the end, he starts to reflect on his adventures and realizes he has learned from them, and we start to see the connecting threads. These threads wrap the story into a nice bow in the final pages.



Back to the beginning, though. Our hero, pictured on the uncredited cover, looks very much like Val Kilmer circa late 1980s. In the first few chapters, it feels as though his early movie roles are the inspiration for the character as well – Wanbli is cocky, charismatic and self-assured. Later in the story, women fall under his spell. Also like Willow's Madmartigan, he is a reluctant hero.

The setting of the novel is this: humanity has spread out from the earth at varying rates and in mostly cultural groups. Our hero's group was one that spoke Hindi (first …