Eagle of the Ninth

A wonderful book which I first read many, many years ago. Sutcliff wrote many historical fiction books, but her most famous are the so-called Eagle of the Ninth chronicles, of which this is the first. The tale of a former Centurion's quest to recover the lost Eagle of his father's Legion, which was destroyed by the tribes beyond Hadrian's Wall, this is a marvellous adventure tale, superbly written. Sutcliff's books are well researched and I'd recommend this to anyone.