Matthew Harffy

Los presagios lo habían anunciado: hambruna, vientos huracanados, relámpagos en el cielo despejado, serpientes volando por el aire; y, sin embargo, cuando todo sucedió, nadie estaba preparado. Por el norte, descendiendo hacia el lugar mas sagrado del reino, el monasterio de Lindisfarne, aquellos barcos con el dragon en la proa se deslizaron entre la niebla del amanecer aquel 8 de junio del año 793. Y entonces llego el caos.Entre la sangre y el saqueo de los vikingos, los monjes huyen y se resguardan, y solo un joven novicio se mantiene firme. Ha sido educado en la caridad y la templanza, pero, ante la matanza de sus hermanos y la profanacion pagana de su iflesia, el perdon resulta imposible.Y lo vivido cambia para siempre la existencia del joven Hunlaf, pues descubre, de repente, que hay un tiempo para la fe y la oracion... y otro para las espadas.

Lindisfarne, AD793.There had been portents famine, whirlwinds, lightning from clear skies, serpents seen flying through the air. But when the raiders came, no one was prepared.They came from the North, their dragon-prowed longships gliding out of the dawn mist as they descended on the kingdom's most sacred site.It is 8th June AD 793, and with the pillage of the monastery on Lindisfarne, the Viking Age has begun.While his fellow monks flee before the Norse onslaught, one young novice stands his ground. He has been taught to turn the other cheek, but faced with the slaughter of his brothers and the pagan desecration of his church, forgiveness is impossible.Hunlaf soon learns that there is a time for faith and prayer ... and there is a time for swords.

A thrilling historical western set in 1890s Oregon An English soldier turned policeman escapes to the American West for a new future but life on the frontier proves far harder than he ever imagined Slipping into Dark Frontier is like pulling on a comfortable pair of old cowboy boots Matthew Harffy knows how to write a real western C J Box 1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Inch Teeth A modern western with grit in its teeth A European soldier and man of the world finds the Wild West to be wilder than he might have expected Much to the reader s delight Joe R Lansdale A man can flee from everything but his own nature 1890 Lieutenant Gabriel Stokes of the British Army left behind the horrors of war for a role in the Metropolitan Police Though he rose quickly through the ranks the squalid violence of London s East End proved just as dark and oppressive as the battlefield With his life falling apart and longing for peace and meaning Gabriel leaves the grime of London behind and heads for the wide open spaces of the American West He soon realises that the wilds of Oregon are far from the idyll he has yearned for The Blue Mountains may be beautiful but with the frontier a complex patchwork of feuds and felonies and ranchers as vicio

b A thrilling historical western set in 1890s Oregon from the author of the critically acclaimed Bernicia Chronicles An English soldier turned policeman escapes to the American West for a new future but life on the frontier proves far harder than he ever imagined b b i A man can flee from everything but his own nature i b 1890 Lieutenant Gabriel Stokes of the British Army left behind the horrors of war in Afghanistan for a role in the Metropolitan Police Though he rose quickly through the ranks the squalid violence of London s East End proved just as dark and oppressive as the battlefield With his life falling apart and longing for peace and meaning Gabriel leaves the grime of London behind and heads for the wilderness and wide open spaces of the American West He soon realises that the wilds of Oregon are far from the idyll he has yearned for The Blue Mountains may be beautiful but with the frontier a complex patchwork of feuds and felonies and ranchers as vicious as any back alley cut throat in London Gabriel finds himself unable to escape his past and the demons that drive him Can he find a place for himself on the far edge of the New World Harffy breathes new life into the Western genre with all the sureness of a maestro i Dark Frontier

Los presagios lo habían anunciado: hambruna, vientos huracanados, relámpagos en el cielo despejado, serpientes volando por el aire; y, sin embargo, cuando todo sucedió, nadie estaba preparado. Por el norte, descendiendo hacia el lugar mas sagrado del reino, el monasterio de Lindisfarne, aquellos barcos con el dragon en la proa se deslizaron entre la niebla del amanecer aquel 8 de junio del año 793. Y entonces llego el caos.Entre la sangre y el saqueo de los vikingos, los monjes huyen y se resguardan, y solo un joven novicio se mantiene firme. Ha sido educado en la caridad y la templanza, pero, ante la matanza de sus hermanos y la profanacion pagana de su iflesia, el perdon resulta imposible.Y lo vivido cambia para siempre la existencia del joven Hunlaf, pues descubre, de repente, que hay un tiempo para la fe y la oracion... y otro para las espadas.