From the best selling author of Jurassic Park and Airframe comes Michael Crichton's classic adventure novel Eaters of the Dead - now a major motion picture from Touchstone Pictures starring Antonio Banderas and Omar Sharif.Join a stunning adventure in 922 A.D. to a mysterious land where the day's length does not equal the night's...where after sunset the sky burns in streaks of color...where a powerful Viking chieftain and his band of brothers must lock in mortal combat with monstrous brutes who threaten to empty the land...
The novel is partly based on an actual journey recorded by the Arab Muslim traveler Ahmad ibn Fadlan and partly on the Old English epic Beowulf.
