"Ring the Judas Bell" is superior fiction. It has more depth, bite and stark realism than most of what is written for young readers…. Greatly different though the books are, it has something in common with Nikos Kazantzakis's "The Fratricides." Both works are about the anguish of civil war in Greece, following World War II….

The plot is elaborately complex and suspenseful….

It is a worthwhile tale of courage, faith and patriotism with the characters well drawn and the wild Greek terrain excellently evoked.