The Doom of Odin (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312372965)

As the Black Death rampages across Europe, two creatures of the Elder World clash over the rotting corpse of Christendom in Scott Oden's third book in the Grimnir Series

Skr lingr. Orcn饌s. Fomoraig. He is Grimnir . . .

For over a century, he has tracked the dragon, N瀇hgr -- the Malice-Striker -- from the shores of Lake V舅ern, across the Baltic Sea, through Russia, and down into the Mediterranean; he has hounded the wyrm from Old Muscovy to Messina. And finally, to the Eternal City -- to Rome, itself.

And in Rome, on a cold November night in 1347 AD, on the ruined steps of Old St. Peter's basilica, Grimnir's saga comes crashing to an end. A crossbow bolt, loosed in terror, slays him out of hand. It is a mundane finale to a life spent hip-deep in bloodshed and slaughter, surrounded by steel and savagery and the sorcery of the Elder World.

But Death is just the beginning . . .

Now, on the grim and misty isle of N疽trond, under the shadows of Yggasil, Grimnir is plunged headlong into the twisted Valhalla that is the afterlife of his people. Here, bloody in-fighting, schemes and betrayals are the order of the day. Grimnir is forced to contend with a cabal of witches, with giants and trolls who have never felt the light of Miar's moon, and with his own rapacious kin as he journeys beyond the shores of N疽trond to find answers. And with every death, Grimnir unravels another thread of a monstrous secret woven at the dawn of time -- one that will turn him from the pawn of unknown gods into the most powerful being in the Nine Worlds. And the most hunted.

For he, alone, holds the key to Ragnar and the Doom of Odin . . .

Author: Scott Oden
ISBN-10: 0312372965
ISBN-13: 9780312372965
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Language: English
Published: 12/19/2023
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/09/2023