Publisher: | Harper Collins |
Genres: | Fiction Books, Fantasy Books, Historical Fiction |
Authors: | Michael Crichton |
Pages: | 291 pages |
Binding: | Hardcover |
ISBN10: | 0060891564 |
ISBN13: | 9780060891565 |
Tags: | Fiction eBooks, Fantasy eBooks, Historical Fiction eBooks, epub eBooks, Free epub |
Language: | en |
From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, an epic tale of unspeakable horror
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 . . .
“Crichton knows how to craft a tale, one that keeps the reader turning the pages.”—Houston Chronicle
“Michael Crichton is one of our most gifted popular novelists. A true son of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. . . . A master of plausible and frightening scenarios. . . . He is a connoisseur of catastrophe.”—Los Angeles Times