One of the Viking Kingdoms are in a looming crises and it is up to the ruling family to get enough support to organize a defense and avoid a take over of the leadership. At stake is having new oppressive laws replacing a benign old law system and leaving the people into the hands of the harsh rulers of the Uppsala Courts. Local Chieftains has already committed Treason and the question is if there is enough time to avert the take-over.Will Olav and his family have enough time to prevent this disaster from happening or is it already too late? Is there escape possible for the ruling family if it is too late for effective countermeasures? If the takeover happens will there be another chance? This is the first book in a trilogy of the adventures of the son of the ruling family n his quest to track the root of his people and to gain support in an outlandish existence among rebels and mercenaries. It is also a book of how one develop leadership is a rough setting where local conflicts and subversive undercurrents it about to surface and change everything unless one stays vigilant at all times. The author is not new to publishing as he has written investigative journalism articles and and manuscripts, published 5 books; see list in his BIO. He classifies this work as historical faction; a combination of facts and fiction.
About the Author: He grew up in occupied Norway as the son of a freedom fighter and on his grandfathers farm by a lake characterized as a national geographic wonder. He spent free time on this lake at his fathers log-cabin with his family. He has 3 college degrees in Engineering and Business Economics and Accounting and work altogether 30 years as a professional. His first writings was a nature trip to the arctics (the land of the midnight sun) and Ghost-stories, The Poetry, an investigative journalism manuscript after having published a large number of articles and press-releases on the subject; published a manual for his business clients; E-zine articles on Business Marketing; then Children's stories as endorsed by the children-book writers at the Children's Institute of Literature in CT. His main focus these days are historical fiction or faction as he calls it; "Olav the Viking, The Heritage, Vol one is of such category. Recently he published a book on int. financial (historical faction) on Amazon; "The plot against the Golden Pot". A few years ago he established a Private Nature Preserve next to a National Forest with, cabin, lodge, trading post; a full fledged chicken-operation, launching-sites for kayakers, wilderness campsites and trail parking. Here he found found time to catch up on his writings. He enjoys outdoors, camping trail-hiking fly-fishing and keep researching historical events.He went on a fishing trip to the wilderness of Norwegian Arctic's (land of the midnight sun) and survived a snowstorm in a dug cave in the high mountains of Western Norway. He and his 3 grown-up children lives in California.