the flame bearer plot summary

The next morning the three wake and discover the last bearer is missing. Characters. The bearers run off, and Dave and Matt run off after them. The Flame Bearer. But he will need all the skills he has learned in a lifetime of war to make his dream come true. In a ten novel series Bernard Cornwell brings to the readers The Flame Bearer. A poisonous snake approaches her, but Dave returns and shoots and kills it. They are a week's walk from the camp of the previous party. Instead, Uhtred engineers a one-year extension of the truce. Cornwell (Warriors of the Storm, 2016, etc.) They find a track that indicates the satellite scorched an area of the jungle. In this novel Uhtred sets out to finally regain his childhood home, Bebbanburg, which is now held by his cousin. In the opening pages of The Flame Bearer, Uhtred cleverly defuses a plot by Æthelhelm, a wealthy Saxon lord and King Edward’s father-in-law and chief counselor, to provoke war. The Flame Bearer seems to be the epic end of the Saxon Tales. Carol is left to wait in the clearing. Dave tries to convince Carol that the odds are against them with a bearer missing and the rains starting. Carol calls to her husband, but all they find is a chimpanzee. Menu. Uthred must band together with Sigtriggyr, his son-in-law, to fend off the Mercians and the West Saxons. The Flame Bearer (Book) : Cornwell, Bernard : With Britain in an uneasy state of peace, Uhtred of Bebbanburg at last has the chance to take back the home his traitorous uncle stole from him so many years ago -- and which his scheming cousin still occupies. Read "The Flame Bearer (The Last Kingdom Series, Book 10)" by Bernard Cornwell available from Rakuten Kobo. The tenth book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions. A much more interesting book than The Empty Throne, the wonderfully titled Warriors of the Storm only took me a bunch of hours on a plane to read. Summary Edit. Matt finds an abandoned camp of tents. Edward’s sister, though ill, controls Mercia. Uhtred steals the dying man’s sword, but punctiliously gives him the rusty old sword that he had been using, so that the dying man can die with his hand on the hilt of a sword. There is a point in THE FLAME BEARER when Uhtred, our hero, kills a Norse warrior who is trying to burn his boat. Alfred Ælfric Æthelflaed Æthelwold Beocca Brida Edward Gisela Guthrum Hild Iseult Leofric Mildrith Odda the Elder Odda the Younger Oswald Earl Ragnar Ragnar Steapa Ubba Uhtred Willibald. After securing the future of Mercia, Uhtred and his allies turn their eyes northward, towards his old homeland of Northumbria. The Flame Bearer is the tenth historical novel in The Saxon Stories series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in April 2016.It is set in 10th-century England and continues to follow the fortunes of the fictional Uhtred of Bebbanburg.