The Immortal Hun and his Scythian Blade: The Legend Lives On - Softcover

Farkas, Tibor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1535614773 ISBN 13: 9781535614771

Publisher: Tibor Farkas, 2018

Synopsis

"When they have mourned him with such lamentations" said Jordanes in his Getica account of Attila's death and burial, he describes the gold, silver, iron linings of his casket and the complex burial ceremony, which ends in the killing of all eyewitnesses and the flooding of his grave from a temporarily diverted river. For fifteen hundred years, archeologists, fortune hunters, curious individuals and Attila nuts, have scoured Hungary between the rivers the Danube and the Tisza. Legends abound not only about the whereabouts of Attila's grave, but about the mighty sword found by a shepherd boy and given to him by the God of the Scythians to enable him to become the mighty conqueror of Europe and Asia.
A CIA agent and passionate collector of rare swords, Steve Buday embarks on a dangerous assignment to locate a cache of uranium lost by the Germans at the end of WWII, and sought by a modern-day terrorist army to be used for building a dirty bomb. By chance, the suspected location of the uranium and the on-going archeological dig by noted Attila researcher, archeologist, beautiful Dr. Ildiko Vertes, happen to coincide. Steve is bound by his duty to beat the terrorists to the cache, he is drawn by the magic of Attila’s sword, and attracted by the beauty of Ildiko. He ends up finding more than he bargained for.

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About the Author

Born Hungarian and living in Hungary until his escape from the Communist regime in 1956, Tibor was most fortunate to settle in the USA and become a spacecraft and rocket engineer. His talents took him into the future, he contributed to the Moon Landing as well as the Space Shuttle. He remained fascinated with Hungary's past, specifically the lost grave of Attila the Hun. One day he decided to mix legends and modern fictional stories into an exciting modern-day action adventure, at once informative of the Middle Age world of the Huns, desperate tank battles between Russians and Germans near the end of WWII, also involving today's highly motivated terrorist organizations, and modern archeological and spy technology employed by spacecrafts of today. Tibor resides in California's beautiful Orange County.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tibor Farkas
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1535614773
• ISBN 13: 9781535614771
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 259