"Goldsworthy''s meticulous historical knowledge is very much in evidence in The Fort . There are multiple perspectives, ranging from Hadrian''s to a Dacian mystic''s. This makes for an extraordinarily rich picture of a battle on the empire''s borders" -- The Times "Part adventure, part thriller but it''s also a dramatic and credible recreation of Roman and barbarian life and an exploration of the ancient political world. An historian can bring a lot to a fictional tale but only if they have the novelist''s gene and understand imaginative storytelling too, Goldsworthy does. He writes fiction with the accuracy of an academic and the flair of a creative writer. The author understands the Roman mentality, the historical events that underpin the fiction and the physical and cultural landscape of the empire''" -- NB Magazine " PRAISE FOR THE VINDOLANDA TRILOGY : ''Praise the gods, Ferox returns in a novel of explosive action and profound authenticity. No one knows the Roman army better than Adrian Goldsworthy, and no one writes more convincing Roman fiction'' Harry Sidebottom, on Brigantia . ''Gritty and realistic.

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