Winter's Fire - Hardcover

Kristian, Giles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 059307453X ISBN 13: 9780593074534

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2016

Synopsis

Norway, AD 785 - a vow of vengeance must be kept...Sigurd Haraldarson has proved himself a great warrior...and a dangerous enemy. He has gone a long way towards avenging the murder of his family. And yet the oath-breaker King Gorm, who betrayed Sigurd's father, still lives. And so long as he draws breath, the scales remain unbalanced. The sacred vow to avenge his family burns in Sigurd's veins, but he must be patient and bide his time. He knows that he and his band of warriors are not yet strong enough to confront the treacherous king. They need silver, they need more spear-brothers to rally to the young Viking's banner - but more than these, they need to win fame upon the battlefield. And so the fellowship venture west, to Sweden, to fight as mercenaries. And it is there - in the face of betrayal and bloodshed, on a journey that will take him all too close to the halls of Valhalla - that Sigurd's destiny will be forged. There, in the inferno of winter's fire...The Vikings return in this thrilling, thunderous sequel to Giles Kristian's bestselling God of Vengeance.

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About the Author

Family history (he is half Norwegian) inspired GILES KRISTIAN to write his first historical novels: the acclaimed and bestselling Raven Viking trilogy - Blood Eye, Sons of Thunder and Odin's Wolves. For his next series, he drew on a long-held fascination with the English Civil War to chart the fortunes of a family divided by that brutal conflict in The Bleeding Land and Brothers' Fury. Giles also co-wrote Wilbur Smith's recent No.1 bestseller, Golden Lion but in his new novels - God of Vengeance (a Times Book of the Year) and now Winter's Fire - he returns to the world of the Vikings to tell the story of Sigurd and his celebrated fictional fellowship. Giles Kristian lives in Leicestershire.

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Norway, AD 785 – a vow of vengeance must be kept . . .

Sigurd Haraldarson has proved himself a great warrior . . . and a dangerous enemy.

He has gone a long way towards avenging the murder of his family. And yet the oath-breaker King Gorm, who betrayed Sigurd’s father, still lives. And so long as he draws breath, the scales remain unbalanced.

The sacred vow to avenge his family burns in Sigurd’s veins, but he must be patient and bide his time. He knows that he and his band of warriors are not yet strong enough to confront the treacherous king. They need silver, they need more spear-brothers to rally to the young Viking’s banner – but more than these, they need to win fame upon the battlefield.

And so the fellowship venture west, to Sweden, to fight as mercenaries. And it is there – in the face of betrayal and bloodshed, on a journey that will take him all too close to the halls of Valhalla – that Sigurd’s destiny will be forged. There, in the inferno of winter’s fire . . .

The Vikings return in this thrilling, thunderous sequel to Giles Kristian’s God of Vengeance – a novel Conn Iggulden hailed ‘a masterwork’ and which Wilbur Smith declared ‘stirs the blood and thrills the soul’.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 059307453X
• ISBN 13: 9780593074534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320