false 73445093 1829385 5975933 0061782637 9780061782633 12 <![CDATA[Eaters of the Dead]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/59/933/5975933-m-1255570190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/59/933/5975933-s-1255570190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5975933.Eaters_of_the_Dead 3.68 79 The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Bagdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs -- the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness . . .

their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth: He has been enlisted by these savage, inscrutable warriors to help combat a terror that plagues them -- a monstrosity that emerges under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh . . .

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