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  • Somehow memories of reading this book are with me 6 years later. I like Vikings, maybe?

    

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  • Very strange, for a Crichton book, but a fascinating read all the same.

    

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2 cassettes / 3 hours
Read by Victor Garber
With an introduction and running commentary read by Michael Crichton

In the year A.D. 922, a refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Bagdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors on their journey to the barbaric North. He is appalled by Viking customs--the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness, their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But only in the depths of the Northland does he learn the horrifying truth: he has been enlisted to combat a terror that comes under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh. . . .

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