The Thirteenth Warrior The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922

"In the year A.D. 911, a refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors on their journey to the barbaric North. He is appalled by Viking customs - the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness, their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But only in the depths of the Northland does he learn the horrifying truth: he has been enlisted to combat a terror that comes under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh ..."--Description from back cover of book.