The Doom Of Odin: A Novel (Grimnir Series, 3),New

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 SeriesSkrlingr. Orcnas. Fomoraig. He is Grimnir . . .For over a century, he has tracked the dragon, Nhggr the MaliceStriker from the shores of Lake Vnern, 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. Peters basilica, Grimnirs 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 hipdeep 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 Nstrond, under the shadows of Yggrasil, Grimnir is plunged headlong into the twisted Valhalla that is the afterlife of his people. Here, bloody infighting, 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 Migarrs moon, and with his own rapacious kin as he journeys beyond the shores of Nstrond 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 Ragnark and the Doom of Odin . . .