The learned dignitary Arab Ibn Fadlan is sent on a diplomatic mission from the Caliph in his land of the Vikings. We are in 922 AD, and he noted in his diary what he is witnessing. Meets with groups of "barbarians" who care much less care than they do with food, alcohol and sex. Attends to their rites, the violence of their ceremonies, the orgies. Fadlan with Europe to a meeting of the time is shocking to him that is sophisticated and evolved from the world of Baghdad, the "City of Peace." But despite its diversity, is welcomed in the Viking clan, enjoys the protection of his boss, Buliwyf and will follow the group up in Scandinavia, to the final fight against the mysterious creatures of the mist. From this novel was adapted in 1999, the film "The Thirteenth Warrior" (The 13th Warrior), directed by John McTiernan .
"He has the charm of present medieval existence that cold, dirty, dangerous, hungry and brutal that lies at the bottom of our imagination. "
Lietta Tornabuoni, La Stampa
Lietta Tornabuoni, La Stampa
The author
John Michael Crichton ( Chicago, October 23 1942 - Los Angeles , November 4 2008) was a writer , writer, director and film producer U.S. . Among his most famous novels stands the best-selling Jurassic Park, which was adapted from the eponymous film . Overall, his novels have sold 150 million copies. It was also the inventor of the television series Medical ER - ER . Son of John Henderson Crichton and Zula Miller Crichton grew up in the neighborhood of Roslyn, Long Island to . Crichton had two sisters, Kimberly and Catherine, and a younger brother, Douglas, co-author of one of his books. He studied at Harvard University of Cambridge, Massachusetts , where he graduated in 1964 . He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1969 in Medicine and Surgery and started classes to become a doctor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies of La Jolla, California , in the years 1969 - 1970. During these years he wrote some short stories under the pseudonyms John Lange and Jeffrey Hudson chosen in reference to his height (2.06 m): in fact Lange in German means "tall person" and Jeffrey Hudson was a dwarf favorite of Queen Henrietta Maria of France in eighteenth century. Crichton was a doctor, but soon gave up his career could not find work suitable to his person and feeling uncomfortable. At 25 he was diagnosed with a benign form of multiple sclerosis , as told in his autobiography Travel . Abandoned medicine has continued to write novels. Thanks to money from the sale of the first books, among which the best-selling Andromeda only 27 years old, was able to realize his biggest dream: to travel. Crichton has visited all corners of the planet getting inspiration from these routes, the plots of future success literary. He was married and divorced four times, was married to Suzanna Childs, Joan Radamato, Kathy St. Johns, Anne-Marie Martin, mother of his daughter Taylor, and finally Sherri Alexander. He died on November 4 2008 at the age of 66 years, after a long battle against cancer . Crichton was working on the fourth episode of the series Jurassic Park, as well as having plans to write the screenplay for the film Westworld . With the exception of 'autobiography Travel and some historical novels, Crichton wrote novels generally set in the present that can be defined as techno-thriller and are a fusion of action and technoscience. For writing these books, Crichton was inspired by the theory and assumptions of other writers or scientists who then integrated into the story, creating novels that are a mix between science fiction (or more accurately anticipating scientific) and reality. We can say that all his stories are ucronìe or alternative scenarios for the arguments of departure, one that occurred in reality. In practical answer to the question: what would happen if one of the original hypothesis was wrong or did not go the right way.
Title: Death Eaters
Original title: Eaters of the Dead
original subtitle: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in AD 922
Author: Michael Crichton
Publisher: Garzanti
Collection: elephants. Thriller
Publication: 2006 (first published in 1976)
ISBN: 8811665035
Pages: 167
Price: € 8.50 
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