Bernard Cornwell's epic story of the making of England continues in
this eleventh installment in the bestselling Saxon Tales series--"like
Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer)--the basis of the hit
Netflix television series The Last Kingdom.
His blood is Saxon
His heart is Viking
His battleground is England
"Perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today"
(Washington Post), Bernard Cornwell has dazzled and entertained
readers and critics with his page-turning bestsellers. Of all his
protagonists, however, none is as beloved as Uhtred of Bebbanburg.
And while Uhtred might have regained his family's fortress, it seems
that a peaceful life is not to be - as he is under threat from both an
old enemy and a new foe. The old enemy comes from Wessex where a
dynastic struggle will determine who will be the next king. And the new
foe is Sköll, a Norseman, whose ambition is to be King of Northumbria
and who leads a frightening army of wolf-warriors, men who fight
half-crazed in the belief that they are indeed wolves. Uhtred, believing
he is cursed, must fend off one enemy while he tries to destroy the
other. In this new chapter of the Saxon Tales series--a rousing
adventure of courage, treachery, duty, devotion, majesty, love and
battle, as seen through the eyes of a warrior straddling two
worlds--Uhtred returns to fight once again for the destiny of England.
