Death of Kings

Resumen del libro

As the ninth century wanes, England appears about to be plunged into chaos once more. For the Viking-raised but Saxon-born warrior, Uhtred, whose life seems to shadow the making of England, this presents him with difficult choices. King Alfred is dying and his passing threatens the island of Britain to renewed warfare. Alfred wants his son, Edward, to succeed him but there are other Saxon claimants to the throne as well as ambitious pagan Vikings to the north. Uhtred s loyalty and his vows were to Alfred, not to his son, and despite his long years of service to Alfred, he is still not committed to the Saxon cause. His own desire is to reclaim his long lost lands and castle to the north. But the challenge to him, as the king's warrior, is that he knows that he will either be the means of making Alfred's dream of a united and Christian England come to pass or be responsible for condemning it to oblivion. This novel is a dramatic story of the power of tribal commitment and the terrible difficulties of divided loyalties. This is the making of England magnificently brought to life by the master of historical fiction.

Biografía del autor

Bernard Cornwell, geb. 1944 in London und in Wessex aufgewachsen, arbeitete lange Jahre erfolgreich als Reporter für das BBC-Fernsehen. 1980 folgte er seiner amerikanischen Frau nach Cape Cod, wo er bis heute lebt und schreibt. In den USA und England feierte Cornwell bereits Triumphe mit einer Romanserie über die napoleonischen Kriege. In Deutschland wurde er bekannt durch seine Artus-Trilogie.<br>