How do you find a new way to approach a story as familiar as any in the English language? If you're Jack Whyte, you begin your retelling of the arthurian saga by taking one giant step backward to the latter days of the R...How do you find a new way to approach a story as familiar as any in the English language? If you're Jack Whyte, you begin your retelling of the arthurian saga by taking one giant step backward to the latter days of the Roman empire in britain, sometime between the first breaching Of Hadrian's wall and the legendary days of king Arthur.