The Flame Bearer (The Last Kingdom Series, Book 10) By Bernard
Cornwell (Paperback, 2017)

Product Description

The brand new novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series on the making of England & the fate of his great hero Uhtred of Bebbanburg BBC2's major TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series From the day it was stolen from me I had dreamed of recapturing Bebbanburg The great fort was built on a rock that was almost an island it was massive it could only be approached on land by a single narrow track
- & it was mine Britain is in a state of uneasy peace Northumbria's Viking ruler Sigtryggr & Mercia's Saxon Queen Aethelflaed have agreed a truce & 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
- & which his scheming cousin still occupies But fate is inexorable & the enemies Uhtred has made & the oaths he has sworn combine to distract him from his dream of recapturing Bebbanburg New enemies enter into the fight for England's kingdoms the redoubtable Constantin of Scotland seizes an opportunity for conquest & leads his armies south Britain's precarious peace threatens to turn into a war of annihilation But Uhtred is determined that nothing neither the new enemies nor the old foes who combine against him will keep him from his birthright He is the Lord of Bebbanburg but he will need all the skills he has learned in a lifetime of war to make his dream come true