Description

An enormous, thrilling historical adventure epic in the best-selling tradition of Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden and Robyn Young Within this sweeping epic occur the aftermath of the Norman Conquest, a criminal German knight called Vallon allows a harmful fee: he should go the ends of Europe seeking four uncommon gyrfalcons required as ransom to get a Norman knight kept hostage by Seljuk Turks in Anatolia. Along with a small Language falconer and a Sicilian student, Vallon sets on a mission that takes him from Iceland to Greenland to Spain and south to Byzantium. About the nine-month trip the organization is registered by other adventurers. Together they brave raging oceans, frozen arctic wastes, dangerous rapids.