On an international level Valerio Massimo Manfredi and Adrian Goldsworthy compose an improvised tandem in a historical fiction around the splendors and shadows of the ancient world at all levels, from the political to the sociological. The question is to find the most accurate intrahistory to make disclosure a greater reader pleasure with the fictional on duty, always adjusted to the maximum to the reality of that remote time.
Being younger, Goldsworthy could be considered something like the outstanding student who ends up reaching the level of the referent. Because this British author also abounds in the human story of great characters, developing from them that exciting look at the beginnings of our civilization.
Stories that are already passionate about their own well-known chronicle but that in the hands of Goldsworthy take on new dimensions extended to the smallest detail. Because it is already known that in the official chronicles the details are not counted and sometimes the small things are the ones that begin to move the big ones, like a lever that ends up moving the world. With a special fondness for the warlike aspects as substantive elements of the Roman Empire, Goldsworthy always keeps us in suspense around the thousand and one battles and their correlative conquests.
Top 3 Recommended Adrian Goldsworthy Novels
The city
Nicopolis, the Greek city founded by Augustus in 31 BC. C. A place exposed to bloody battles as the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire...
114 AD C. In the arid plains beyond the eastern border of the Empire, a Roman legion besieges the city of Nicopolis.
Separated from his beloved Enica to keep her safe, centurion Flavio Ferox continues to work for the emperor's cousin, the calculating and ruthless Hadrian.
His next mission: to uncover a plot of corruption in the army whose leaders seem to be high command. Ferox has no choice but to kill a tribune, but he knows that the real traitors are on the loose. As the siege tightens, the plot spreads, and soldiers begin to be slaughtered in cold blood. Meanwhile, Ferox's investigation brings him closer to the imperial court, and he will have to find out who can be trusted and what the scheming Hadrian really wants.
The strong
The exhaustive knowledge of imperial Rome leads to a multitude of possible plots for a scholar like Goldsworthy. Beyond the most important battles and conquests, there is always the story of small struggles in the frenzy to extend the borders of Rome...
AD 105 C. Dacia. Rome and the kingdom of Dacia are at peace, but no one believes that this can last. Sent to take command of an isolated fort beyond the Danube, Centurion Flavio Ferox senses that war is drawing near, but he also knows that there may be a traitor among his own.
Many of the brigands he commands are former rebels and criminals who can kill him as soon as they obey an order. And then there's Hadrian, the Emperor's cousin, a man with plans of his own… Energetic, engaging and deeply authentic. The Fort is the first title in a new trilogy from well-known historian Adrian Goldsworthy.
Hibernia: On the fringes of the Roman Empire
A plot of unusual tension, as if composed with a thriller base adjusting to remote settings. A great story with the scent of betrayal, blood and summary justice between legions and centuries.
Year 100 AD From his base in Vindolanda, on Britannia's northern border, Flavio Ferox, a British centurion, senses that the enemy lurks on all fronts: ambitious warlords awaiting an opportunity to carve out empires of their own; soldiers who speak, in whispers, of war and the destruction of Rome; new threats about the men who come from the sea, the men of the night, men who hate the land and who only land to devour human flesh… For now they are just rumours. But Ferox knows that rumors are born from certainties. And he knows that no one on this island can consider himself safe from the vast outer sea...
