The Viking Heritage

CAPE TOWN

Malte Moddy - deputy head of the security department at Western Norwegian Oil - has invited Peggy Browning on holiday to South Africa. Without warning, he becomes seriously ill and ends up almost in a coma. This leads to serious consequences for Peggy.
ANDASMAUET, STAVANGER – NORWAY

After a short stay in hospital Malte travels, home to Stavanger. His problems escalate which also has consequences for his position in the oil company. Because of the disease and the medication, he isolates from the outside world. He ends up lying to his brother, John Berg that he soon will be healthy and back at work. His brother sees through him and seeks him in Stavanger. He forces Malte to go home to Lofoten with him.

GENEALOGY

Completely unexpected to himself, he takes interest in genealogy. He wants to find out more about his 8th great grandfather Robert Mudie who immigrated to Norway around the year 1630. A DNA test provides an astonishing discovery. As a direct result of this, he becomes involved in events - with roots back to the Viking age - involving the Russian mafia and the Crimean crisis.

A mafia boss, Sergei Shargunov, owns one of four drinking-horns made of pure gold. Rostislav Korolev, the holder of a vineyard in Odesa, own another. These two men have a family connection back in the 16th century. A dispute over who should inherit both treasures gave rise to a family feud that has persisted ever since.

THE MAIN CHARACTERS

Malte Moddy has a distant family line to a wealthy Scottish immigrant who probably relates to the old Scottish kings.
Elizaveta Koroleva is the daughter of a wine farmer in Odessa. She works as an attorney in Kyiv.

Sergei Sergunov is a mafia boss living in a Castle at Crimea. Important parts of the books go on in Ukraine when Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula.

The Viking Heritage is the first book about Malte Moddy and The Viking Legacy. The two first are available in English. The third – THE VIKING BLOODLINE - is planned published Q1 2021.