Troubled fourteen-year-old Ryan crawls through a tunnel, straight into Viking territory, after finding his dead father's survival knife in a mountain cave...
Fourteen-year-old Ryan’s world has fallen apart since his father was lost in a fishing accident at sea. The final straw comes when his grief-stricken mother suffers a mental collapse and is whisked away to a psychiatric hospital. Ryan runs to his favourite spot in the Mourne Mountains where he discovers a survival knife in a cave – the very knife his father took with him on his last fishing trip. Searching the cave for answers as to how the knife ended up there, Ryan discovers a tunnel and crawls through – straight into 962AD and the age of the Viking settlers.
There Ryan meets a boy called Snorri who instantly recognizes the knife. Ryan goes with Snorri to his farm and is welcomed with open arms into a loving and eccentric Viking family. In between dodging lovelorn Viking girls and mad would-be-mother-in-laws, Ryan begins to unravel a trail of evidence leading to his father’s disappearance.
A middle grade adventure.