A captivating adventure novel! It lies between legend and history. The mysteries of the Vikings, Greenland, the polar circle, the Mayans, the Golden Horn with the crusaders, and to top it all off: the Nazis. We find espionage, the Vatican, and its secrets.
The author succeeds, and this is where their talent lies, in making us believe in a new historical reality. The Vikings and their Drakkars supposedly reached the Caribbean, a naval journey in the 11th century that would have taken them from the Black Sea to America. To spice up the story, we encounter former Nazis searching for the legends of Vinland.
An adventure novel with descriptions of landscapes, situations, danger, and peril for our heroes on every page. The quest for an absolute, a map of the known and unknown world. David Gibbins does not question history; he creates history and, through this novel, invites us to imagine the Vikings crossing the Atlantic Ocean five centuries before Columbus.
Even though we know today that from Iceland and Greenland they had discovered Labrador, this book gives us that part of the dream that makes each of us that eternal child listening to and reading a fantastic tale.
Thierry Jan, writer
