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The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, 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…

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…

Арабский аристократ Ибн Фадлан волею халифа оказывается в далекой Северной стране, где день длиннее ночи, а ночью вместе с туманом приходят демоны, оставляющие после себя обезглавленные трупы людей. На смертельную битву с таинственным племенем пожирателей мертвых отправляется отряд могучих викингов во главе с неустрашимым Беовульфом. Ибн Фадлану суждено стать тринадцатым воином в этом отряде…

The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, 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…

Вельможа и поэт Ахмад Ибн Фадлан, подданный арабского халифа, отправлен с поручением к богатому купцу. Но события складываются так, что Ахмад бежит из халифата и оказывается на Севере в плену у скандинавских викингов. Ночью во тьме появляются потомки неандертальцев — демоны с медвежьими головами и лапами львов, нападающие на людей, убивающие их и поедающие мертвых. На смертельную битву с племенем пожирателей мертвых отправляется отряд викингов во главе с неустрашимым Баливифом (Беовульфом). Ибн Фадлан стал тринадцатым воином в этом отряде, вышедшим на битву с племенем пещер.

It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs—the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen, forbidden landscape of the North—where the day’s length does not equal the night’s, where after sunset the sky burns in streaks of color—Fadlan soon discovers that he has been unwillingly enlisted to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings, the monsters of the mist that devour human flesh. But just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea.

An action-packed historical thriller from the internationally bestselling author of Jurassic Park. The Eaters of the Dead is a brilliant, stirring tale of historical adventure which deserves a place on readers bookshelves alongside Michael Crichton's bestselling techno-thrillers. It is AD922 and Ibn Fadlan is sent north from Baghdad as a peaceful ambassador. But before he reaches his destination, he falls in with some Vikings and when they are attacked by mystical bloodthirsty creatures in the midst of a terrible fog, he reluctantly agrees to become the prophesied 13th warrior in order for them to survive. Later turned into a major…