The Fall of the Iron Prow

In November of 1219, Vikings attack Constantinople, sacked and ruined by crusaders twenty years before, and in the streets of the empty city, a boy who has become a man fights against them to save everything he loves. But first he must learn to bear the shame of his house, a secret now lost: his father was the greatest traitor the Byzantine Empire had ever known. In the crucible of a world at war, Niall Alreksson fights for the fate of the Queen of Cities, and with it the line of emperors that has stood for a thousand years. This volume ncludes maps and an appendix on the history of the Viking Imperial Guard, the Varangians, who guarded the life of the Byzantine emperor.