I am a great fan of your writing and have posted here many times before…I eagerly anticipated “The Fort” and bought it in Heathrow T5, to my wife’s chagrin as she wanted to give it to me as a Xmas present….but, alas…what a disappointment..it’s flat, boring, like a school history lesson, none of the usual BC sparkle and verve, I even put it aside for two weeks and then forced myself to finish it..sorry, but it didn’t cut the mustard for me. Graham Bradbury