The Warlord Chronicles · Book 2
Enemy of God
- Published
- 1 January 1996
- Pages
- 496
- ISBN-13
- 9780140232479
- Type
- novel
About this book
Enemy of God followed in 1996, slightly shorter at 496 pages, covering Arthur's uneasy years fending off internal rivals and external Saxon threats while Merlin chases the old gods' relics and Guinevere plays an increasingly dangerous political hand.
Its place in The Warlord Chronicles
Enemy of God is book 2 in the The Warlord Chronicles series. It follows The Winter King. It is followed by Excalibur. See the full The Warlord Chronicles reading order.
The Warlord Chronicles is Bernard Cornwell's retelling of the King Arthur legend, stripped of magic and chivalric romance and rebuilt as gritty post-Roman history. The story is narrated decades after the fact by Derfel Cadarn, an aging monk and former warrior looking back on his youth as one of Arthur's sworn soldiers, and it reframes Arthur not as a crowned king but as a landless warlord holding fractured Britain together by force of will and force of arms while the rightful child-king Mordred grows into a…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780140232479