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Gordon Doherty

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Gordon Doherty is a Scottish author of historical adventure novels, particularly stories set in the ancient and early medieval worlds. His interest in history developed through visits to Roman remains in Britain and archaeological sites in Greece and Turkey. His fiction combines extensive historical research with military action, political rivalry and characters caught within the decline or transformation of powerful empires. His work ranges from the Bronze Age and Classical Greece to the later Roman and Byzantine empires.

Doherty’s long-running Legionary series begins with Legionary and follows Pavo, a soldier serving on the threatened frontiers of the late Roman Empire during the Gothic wars. The Strategos trilogy, beginning with Born in the Borderlands, is set during the Byzantine–Seljuk conflicts of the eleventh century, while the six-volume Empires of Bronze series follows the Hittite prince Hattu through the wars and political upheavals of the thirteenth century BCE. Doherty also co-wrote the Rise of Emperors trilogy with Simon Turney, produced the novelisation of Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, and began the Age of Attila series with The Eagle and the Wolf, centred on Attila and the Roman general Flavius Aetius.

Periods and events

Gothic War of 376–382 Theodosian Civil Wars Trojan War Byzantine Empire Tetrarchy Roman–Sasanian Wars Hunnic Empire and Attila Peloponnesian War

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Gordon Doherty (6 series)

Legionary in Order

by Gordon Doherty 11 books 4.4(14,159)

The Legionary series follows Numerius Vitellius Pavo from slavery into the ranks and command of the XI Claudia during the late fourth-century crisis of the Roman Empire. Its main sequence begins on the Danube in 376 CE and carries Pavo through the Gothic War, the disaster at Adrianople,…

Empires of Bronze in Order

by Gordon Doherty 6 books 4.5(4,244)

The Empires of Bronze series follows the Hittite prince Hattu, the future king Hattusili III, through the final century of the Late Bronze Age. Beginning with his dangerous childhood, the sequence places him inside the rivalry between Hatti and Egypt, the Battle of Kadesh, a struggle for the…

Strategos in Order

by Gordon Doherty 3 books 4.4(2,366)

The Strategos trilogy follows Apion, a boy orphaned on the Byzantine–Seljuk frontier, as he rises from slavery and rural obscurity to become a general of the Byzantine Empire. His pursuit of revenge draws him into the military and political struggle for Anatolia during the eleventh century. Across the…

Rise of Emperors in Order

by Gordon Doherty 3 books 4.4(6,066)

Co-written by Gordon Doherty and Simon Turney, the Rise of Emperors trilogy dramatises the lives of Constantine and Maxentius from their youth under Diocletian’s Tetrarchy to their struggle for control of the Roman world. A childhood connection develops into rivalry as each man acquires armies, political allies and…

Age of Attila in Order

by Gordon Doherty 1 book 4.2(6)

The Age of Attila series follows the intertwined lives of Flavius Aëtius and Attila during the fragmentation of the Western Roman world. Its opening novel begins when the young Roman Aëtius is sent as a hostage among the Huns and forms an unlikely bond with the boy who…

Assassin’s Creed in Order

by Gordon Doherty 1 book

The Assassin’s Creed novels expand the historical settings and characters of Ubisoft’s game series through self-contained adventures written by several authors. Each volume places the conflict between Assassins, Templars and related factions within a distinct historical period. Gordon Doherty’s contribution, Odyssey, follows the Spartan mercenary Kassandra during the…

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