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Mar 28, 2013zipread rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Hadrian’s Wall --- by William Dietrich. Dietrich is one of those authors who can lay claim to a huge chunk of the domain of historical fiction. Others have tilled this field but Dietrich seems to do it better than many others. This is a novel about conflict --- or perhaps one should say conficts: conflicts between an old order and a new; between duty and structure and freedom and right; between honour and deceit. It is a novel filled with treachery, deceit and betrayal along the northern fringes of the Roman Empire, along a wall constructed to keep out the ever-threatening barbarians bent on the destruction of Rome. At the same time it is a love story, one that surprises, and yet, at the same time, one that was pre-destined and inevitable. This novel catches your breat and make you hold it; it fills you with dread and fear at the same time that it gives you hope. Another one of those books that simply must be read.