A historical spy thriller set against the savage backdrop of Viking Age Scandinavia. Nine years after King Harald Finehair's decisive victory over viking rebels, a king's man has been murdered in Rogaland. Gest, an agent of the king's spies known as the Gestasveit, is despatched to identify the killers and bring them to justice. But in his attempts to solve the mystery, he uncovers evidence of a far more serious crime: a plot...