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Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton6/28/2023 In 922 A.D, Ibn Fadlan, a devout Muslim, left his home in Baghdad on a mission to the King of Saqaliba. This remarkable true story originated from actual journal entries of an Arab man who traveled with a group of Vikings throughout northern Europe. Michael Crichton takes the listener on a one-thousand-year-old journey in his adventure novel Eaters Of The Dead. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. He is a connoisseur of catastrophe.”- Los Angeles Times A master of plausible and frightening scenarios. “Michael Crichton is one of our most gifted popular novelists. “Crichton knows how to craft a tale, one that keeps the reader turning the pages.”- Houston Chronicle 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. He is appalled by their Viking customs-the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, an epic tale of unspeakable horror
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