“Excellent … an utterly believable, often brutal, tale of England during the Viking raids … [an] exciting, often grim and tragic, look at the way things might have been.”

—Starlog

“Harrison has supplied the book with plenty of action and also done his homework with admirable thoroughness.”

—Chicago Sun-Times

“The historical aspects of this tale are developed carefully and well.”

—Cleveland Plain Dealer

“The book doesn’t shrink from the brutality of the Dark Ages, but reminds the reader that courage and sensitivity can flourish in the worst of times.”

—Sunday News-Globe (Amarillo, TX)

Copyright Page

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.

THE HAMMER AND THE CROSS

Copyright © 1993 by Harry Harrison and John Holm

A Tor Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.
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New York, N.Y. 10010

Tor® is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.

Cover art by Kevin Johnson
Interior illustrations by Bill Sanderson

eISBN 9781466823303

First eBook Edition : June 2012

First edition: September 1993
First mass market edition: November 1994