War of the wolf : a novel

At the fortress of the eagles, three kings will fight ... Uhtred of Bebbanburg has won back his ancestral home but, threatened from all sides by enemies both old and new, he doesn't have long to enjoy the victory. In Mercia, rebellion is in the air as King Edward tries to seize control. In Wessex, rival parties scramble to settle on the identity of the next king. And across the country invading Norsemen continue their relentless incursion, ever hungry for land. Uhtred - a legendary warrior, admired and sought as an ally, feared as an adversary - finds himself once again torn between his two heritages: fighting on what he considers the wrong side, cursed by misfortune and tragedy and facing one of his most formidable enemies. Only the most astute cunning, the greatest loyalty and the most spectacular courage can save him. For decades, Uhtred has stood at the intersection between Pagan and Christian, between Saxon and Viking, between the old world he was born into and the new world being forged around him. But as the winds of change gather pace, the pressure on Uhtred as father, as politician and as warrior grows as never before. Gold title * A Global brand - Bernard Cornwell is the author of over 50 novels published in 30 countries and 28 languages: he is the most successful and prolific historical novelist writing today * This is the eleventh novel in The Last Kingdom series which is now a major television series with the third season to premiere on global streaming service Netflix in late 2018 * THE FLAME BEARER, the tenth book in this series, went straight to No. 1 in the Hardback fiction chart in Autumn 2016 and has now sold over 90,000 hardbacks * Bernard Cornwell has sold over 20 million books around the world * His previous hardback, FOOLS AND MORTALS, a foray into Elizabethan England, was a Top Ten bestseller and brought him to an even larger audience.