The Whale Road

By Robert Low,

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The first in a brand new series charting the adventures of the Oathsworn, a band of Vikings on the chase for the secret hoard of Attila the Hun.

Life is savage aboard a Viking raider. When young Orm Rurikson is plucked from the snows of Norway to join his estranged…

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Why read it?

1 author picked The Whale Road as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The descriptions of Vikings in this book are unique to others in the Viking Historical Fiction genre.

Robert captures the Viking Age with realistic grit and blood-spattered realism, and this is a difficult book to put down. Orm Bearslayer and his crew are classic anti-heroes, and Finn Horsehead is a magnificent character.

The Whale Road is the first in the Oathsworn series, and I would advise any fan of Viking novels to give this one a try.

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