![]() ![]() Uhtred must weigh his oath to the king against the dangerous turning tide of shifting allegiances and deadly power struggles. He wants Uhtred to expel the Viking raiders from London. Their dream is to conquer Wessex, and to do it they need Uhtred’s help.Īlfred has other ideas. But then trouble stirs: a dead man has risen, and new Vikings have arrived to occupy the decayed Roman city of London. He has land, a wife and two children, and a duty given to him by King Alfred to hold the frontier on the Thames. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord-warrior by instinct, Viking by nature-has finally settled down. The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the south. The fourth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” ( The Observer, London)-the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series. ![]()
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