BORU: Forging a King
The epic story of Ireland's Greatest Warrior King. Born the youngest son of a minor chieftain, Brian Boru rises through blood, intrigue, and betrayal to claim a kingdom. Set in the savage world of 10th century Ireland, where Gaelic kings and Viking warlords fight for every scrap of land and power.
IRELAND, 10th CENTURY.
Fractured by blood feuds and
rival kings, the island bleeds under the Viking axe. Along the River
Shannon, Norse longships bring fire and slavery to the south. In the
shattered kingdom of Munster, one man refuses to break.
Brian Boru wants vengeance, not a crown. Outnumbered and
hunted, he wages a brutal guerrilla war from the dense forests of
Thomond. But a bloodied sword cannot heal a broken land. To crush
the Northmen, Brian must conquer his own countrymen first.
Witness the rise of Ireland’s greatest king through the
eyes of the allies who bled for him—and the tyrants who tried to
break him. The Brian Boru chronicle begins here.
“Among them, crouched low in the ferns, ten of the cú faoil — the great Gaelic wolfhounds — held their silence. Enormous rough-coated animals, each one over the height of a man's hip, grey and wheaten in the half-light, they lay pressed against the wet ground with their muzzles on their forepaws and their eyes moving. ”
— Chapter One Extract
“The javelin volley came down the slope in a dark whistling mass, two hundred shafts or more, arcing high and dropping fast, and the front ranks of the Dál gCais went down on one knee in a single movement, the large war shields coming up and overlapping, angled overhead, and the javelins clattered and skittered off the iron rims and the hardened oak and the few that found gaps brought men down and the line closed over those gaps and did not stop moving.”
— Chapter Thirty-Four Extract
