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Book Review of Eaters of the Dead (also published as The 13th Warrior)

Eaters of the Dead (also published as The 13th Warrior)
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From Back Cover....
In the year a.d. 922, a refined Arab courtier representative of the powerful Caliph of Bagdad, encounters a party of Viking warriers on their journey to the barbaric North. He is apalled by Viking customs - the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness, their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But only in the depths of the Northland does he learn the horrifying truth: he has been enlisted to combat a terror that comes under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh.....