
A Times Book of the Year 'A literary intelligent read from a masterful storyteller' In 1035 a young fifteen year old Viking is dragged wounded from the battle Left for dead for the next twenty years his adventures lead him over mountains down the length of Russia & ultimately to Constantinople & the Holy City of Jerusalem Drawn into political intrigue he will be the lover of Empresses the murderer of an emperor; he will hold the balance of power in the Byzantine Empire in his hands & then give it all up for a Russian princess & the chance to return home & lead his own people where he must fight the demons of his past his family & his countrymen in a long & bitter war for revenge & power Told in his own voice this is the astonishing true story of the most famous warrior in all Christendom Harald Hardrada the last Viking