Fenris Wolf is hunting. His prey: three boys who have kidnapped a fairy. But not just any fairy. She’s a forest sprite, beloved by none other than Loki, the Norse god of mischief and malice. Loki sends the wolf to slay the boys, but he has bigger plans. Unless the wolf is stopped, the boys will be only the first to go. Many more will follow.
Odin, the one-eyed Allfather, lord of Asgard and mightiest of the Norse gods, has but one thing to fear: Fenris Wolf, the beast foretold in the prophecy of Ragnarӧk to take his life in the last battle of the gods. Fenris is no ordinary wolf. He is the son of the trickster god, Loki, reared in the luxury of Asgard, pampered until his size and ferocity so frightened the gods that they fettered him, gagged him with a sword, and chained him to a rock on an island. There he is doomed to remain until the prophecy of Ragnarӧk plays out. The prophecy foretells the coming of a winter without end, the turning of man against man, and the final battle of the gods in which Fenris Wolf, broken free of his fetters, claims the life of Odin. Ragnarӧk ends with the demise of the gods and the destruction of the world.
The prophecy of Ragnarӧk tells us neither when it will occur nor what will trigger it. As you, dear reader, are alive to read these words, you know that it has not yet come to pass; but there have been times in modern history when we have come close to it. We have had wars, both hot and cold, in which we approached the brink of world destruction but managed to pull back before it was too late.
However, unknown to most people and unwritten in the books of history, there was another time, long ago, when three boys unwittingly led us closer to Ragnarӧk than the world has ever come. How it happened and how we narrowly escaped, this tale will tell.
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