War Of The Wolf - The Last Kingdom Series (11)

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 pageturning 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 wolfwarriors men who fight halfcrazed 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.