By: Michael Crichton
Genre: Thriller
Harper
May 1, 2009
On Sale: May 1, 2009
Featuring:
304 pages
ISBN: 0061782637
EAN: 9780061782633
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
Book Summary
The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs—the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness . . . their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth: He has been enlisted by these savage, inscrutable warriors to help combat a terror that plagues them—a monstrosity that emerges under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh . . .