A Vengeful Wind, James L. Nelson
A Vengeful Wind, James L. Nelson
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A Vengeful Wind
A Novel of Viking Age Ireland

Author: James L. Nelson

Narrator: Shaun Grindell

Unabridged: 14 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/10/2019

Synopsis

Summer comes to Ireland and an uneasy peace holds at Loch Garman. The Northmen, eager to get to sea, work relentlessly on their ships, with the aid of their unlikely allies, the Irish, who are just as eager to see them go. But not everyone is willing to just let them sail away. Certain that God demands the heathens be punished, the one-eyed warrior-turned-monk Brother Bécc is determined that Thorgrim and his men will not simply go free. And when another band of raiders arrives, Bécc finds the excuse he needs to take action.

Meanwhile, in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, murder leads to a violent struggle for the seat of ealdorman, ruler of the shire of Dorset. Desperate as each side is to tip the balance of power their way, no one imagines that the upper hand might come from the direction they least expect—from the sea.

About James L. Nelson

Naval enthusiast James L. Nelson is the award-winning author of many works of fiction and nonfiction. His books include George Washington's Secret Navy, which won the Naval Order's prestigious Samuel Eliot Morison Award, and Glory in the Name, which was selected as the winner of the American Library Association's W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction. He has appeared on the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and C-SPAN's Book TV. He lives in Maine with his family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bob on September 05, 2018

Best Viking saga ! Nelson 's Norsemen saga is the most exciting and entertaining historical fiction that I have read in a,long time. Maybe ever. His love of the sea and ships is clear in the description of the longships, the way they are sailed and designed. The characters are really well developed a......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on October 31, 2021

I know I can always count on a James L. Nelson novel to be an absorbing, page-turning adventure and this 8th book in the Norseman Saga is no exception. Plenty of Viking adventure to be had. In this volume, Thorgrim Nightwolf and his crew are still in Loch Garman and have almost completed the repair o......more

Goodreads review by Helen on November 06, 2018

This book has received a Discovering Diamonds Review: Helen Hollick founder #DDRevs "This is a stand-alone story, but I whole-heartedly suggest starting at the beginning of the Saga to gain the full appreciation of the events and characters. Lovers of nautical or Viking-based stories will not regret d......more

Goodreads review by Colin on June 10, 2019

Eh. The "two lines, no waiting" approach, with Norse in Ireland, and Saxons in Wessex, didn't work, and only even remotely came together at the end. It's obviously setup for a larger story, which would be great, but as a standalone, eh. If Nelson died tomorrow, this book would leave readers going "An......more

Goodreads review by cdf4206gmail.com on October 19, 2018

OHHHH!!!!!! I am about half way thru this book and I am just loving it. This one may be one of my favorites in this series, and I have loved them all, but this one seems a bit different to me. We find Thorthgrim fighting for survival from his shipwrecks in Ireland and a Saxon lord in England also fi......more

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