THE VIKING The Viking



The Viking

Christopher Tebbetts is the author of the Viking series, VIKING PRIDE, QUEST FOR FAITH, LAND OF THE DEAD, and HAMMER OF THE GODS He graduated from Northwestern University and went on to work in the theater as an actor, director, and producer of plays and musicals, while also contributing frequent pieces to local magazines. He and his family live in Burlington, Vermont.

This book is about a kid that doesn't like going to football games but his dad makes him. One time when he and his dad went to a Minnesota football game together his dad told him to go get some bratwurst. When he went to go get the bratwurst a sudden freak blizzard fell upon him and everyone else at the game. While he was in the freak blizzard he tripped and fell upon a key of some sort that took him into the 9th-century and he has to do many different things to keep a prophecy alive with the Vikings. He does all these things and fulfills the prophecy. So he thinks he can take the treasure that is in the chest he opens with the key he falls upon. He thinks has done everything that he had to do but he hasn't and he opens the chest but finds nothing in it but a map that tells him were to find his next job. Then the key takes him home, fourteen-year-old Zack Gilman is not what you'd call a happy kid.

The mild-mannered son of the world's biggest Minnesota Vikings fan, he is doomed to spend his days being dragged to football games, where he's forced to sing fight songs and make bratwurst runs for his dad's boisterous posse. The problem is Zack hates all organized sports. The other problem is, he's six-foot-three, weighs 250 pounds, and his dad sees him as the next Vikings football MVP. Zack is back in ninth century Scandinavia once again. Now well aware of his bizarre role among the Vikings, he's on his way to the mysterious Jotunheim, the Land of the Giants, in search of the object that will fulfill the first of his duties as the legendary "Lost Boy." Zack has no idea exactly where he is going or what he'll do when he gets there, but he must get there soon, or risk losing his Viking friends forever (Tebbetts, 2003).

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