The tenth installment of Bernard Cornwell's New York Times
bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England,
"like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)--the basis for
The Last Kingdom, the hit television series.
Britain is in a state of uneasy peace. Northumbria's Viking ruler,
Sigtryggr, and Mercia's Saxon Queen Aethelflaed have agreed a truce. And
so England's greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, at last has the
chance to take back the home his traitorous uncle stole from him so many
years ago--and which his scheming cousin still occupies.
But fate is inexorable, and the enemies Uhtred has made and the oaths he
has sworn conspire to distract him from his dream of recapturing his
home. New enemies enter into the fight for England's kingdoms: the
redoubtable Constantin of Scotland seizes an opportunity for conquest
and leads his armies south. Britain's precarious peace threatens to turn
into a war of annihilation. Yet Uhtred is determined that
nothing--neither the new adversaries nor the old foes who combine
against him--will keep him from his birthright.
"Historical novels stand or fall on detail, and Mr. Cornwell writes as
if he has been to ninth-century Wessex and back."
--Wall Street Journal
