Mr. Cornwell — Congratulations on “The Fort,” an excellent and entertaining historical novel! I have never felt compelled to do something like this email until now. Many years ago, as a lad of 11 or 12 (I am 59 now) I spent a boring day at grandma’s haus while the adults talked for hours. But I found on grandma’s bookshelf a 1950s Reader’s Digest book of condensed novels that included “Northwest Passage,” by Kenneth Roberts, the first part about Robert Rogers’ raid on St. Francis. I was hooked on Kenneth Roberts and his novels, especially those set during the American Revolution and, until now, I have not found anything that compares. Bravo! Thank you for “The Fort.” I should check out a Sharpe book or two, I think. Jeffrey Thomas Waalkes Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin