07-21-2006, 06:09 PM
I highly recommend his previous books: Gun, with occasional music and Motherless Brooklyn. Haven't read Fortress. Sounds like literature, though, and I'm agin it.
In the Tudor Period, Fencing Masters were classified in the Vagrancy Laws along with Actors, Gypsys, Vagabonds, Sturdy Rogues, and the owners of performing bears.