The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Chronicles Series #2)

Paperback, 384 pages

English language

Published Dec. 26, 2006 by HarperCollins.

ISBN:
978-0-06-114483-7
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Uhtred is a Saxon, cheated of his inheritance and adrift in a world of fire, sword, and treachery. He has to make a choice: whether to fight for the Vikings, who raised him, or for King Alfred the Great of Wessex, who dislikes him.In the late ninth century, Wessex is the last English kingdom. The rest have fallen to the Danish Vikings, a story told in The Last Kingdom, the New York Times bestselling novel in which Uhtred's tale began. Now the Vikings want to finish England. They assemble the Great Army, whose one ambition is to conquer Wessex. A dispossessed young nobleman, married to a woman who hails from Wessex, Uhtred has little love for either, though for King Alfred he has none at all. Yet fate, as Uhtred learns, has its own imperatives, and when the Vikings attack out of a wintry darkness to shatter the last English …

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Subjects

  • General
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Historical
  • Action & Adventure
  • Historical - General
  • Sagas
  • Fiction / General
  • 0-1066
  • 849-899
  • Alfred,
  • Alfred, 871-899
  • Great Britain
  • History
  • King of England,