"The time has come to pay for your treachery, Captain!"

"The Oath of the five Lords" is the twenty-first book in the series of "Adventures of Blake and Mortimer." It was released in November 2012 to Blake and Mortimer Publishing. The screenplay was written by Yves Sente. André Juillard has done the illustrations.

The story is set in 1954, probably in late November or early December. In the chronology of the series, this adventure is from "The Strange appointment" and "Curse of the last thirty."
November 1919. A man waits his train with a drink at the bar of a pub in Reading station, his suitcase at his feet. A latecomer distracted his attention and a character the opportunity to take possession of the bag discreetly. This is given to a man waiting at the back of a car. While the loudspeaker announces the train to London, the traveler suddenly realizes that one has stolen his baggage. Panicked, he ran to the docks but not see anyone suspicious. As he passes through the pub to get off, two armed men urge him to get in the car. The traveler is none other than Thomas Edward Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia. The instigator of the theft of the bag, which contains the writings of Lawrence for a pamphlet on the Arab policy of the government is Lieutenant Alister Lawless, MI5 officer. Lawless was charged to expose the subversive elements within the British Army and believes Lawrence, because of his opinions, is one. Lawless threatening Lawrence and his family, ordered him to amend his book ...
End 1954. At Oxford, a masked figure enters in peace by the roofs of the Ashmolean Museum to steal a stringed instrument. The next day in London, Blake and Mortimer take an early breakfast. Mortimer is excited to have been invited as amateur archaeologist in a seminar by the curator of the Ashmolean Museum. Blake, reading the Daily Express, can not suppress an exclamation: an article announces the death of one of his former comrades of Oxford. Wishing to attend the funeral, Blake share a taxi with Mortimer. What he does not know is that this murder is only the first. As for Mortimer, once arrived at the Ashmolean Museum, he will be confronted with strange properties of objects flights ...

Sente gives us an exciting story, a murder mystery full of twists, suspense and action, while developing, in a credible way, a part of the youth of Blake. Everything is fly in this story of revenge skillfully written and articulated.
Sublimated by the work of the colourist Madeleine De Mille, the graphics Juillard is the other great success of this album. While it is perhaps not among all the designers of the post-jacobsienne period, the one that best succeeds in imitating the master's style in absolute terms, the careful and meticulous work of the artist and his impressive attention to detail is admirable - especially when we know that it is faster than his colleagues who worked on the recovery of this series.

The "Oath of the five Lords" is a beautiful screenplay and graphic achievement, worthy of a great detective story, which comes on the youth and that Blake originality not to Olrik scene.