The Landwaster

Name: The Landwaster
ISBN: 9780473411244

Publisher:: Cliowrite Limited
Release Date:: 13 November 2017
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ISBN:: 9780473411244

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Meet The Scraeling....... 'The most dangerous little bugger alive' is how the terrible Landwaster, Harald Hardraada, describes his chief of staff, The Scraeling, and this novel chronicles part of his story. Torn at fifteen from a convent devastated by a viking raid, the cripple derisively nicknamed 'The Scraeling' uses his intellect, his learning and his organisational skills not just to survive in a world that prizes strength and savagery above all else, but to become indispensable to the band and its ruthless leader. Ironically, the Landwaster is unaware of just how right he is, for The Scraeling's secret, unswerving and lifelong purpose is not only to betray his fearsome master but to end the day of the viking itself. In his own words, "I smile at him, flatter him, counsel him and plan for him so that he may lean on me as upon a staff. And one day his staff will turn in his hand and kill him and his as they killed mine . . ."

ISBN 9780473411244