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"Some books make you laugh, and others make you think. It's a rare literary offering that prompts both. Return of The Secret Viking achieves this unlikely feat and much more. Martin Myers does it again in a novel filled with humour, insight, and a love of language. Bravo."
- Terry Fallis, two-time winner of the
Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour PREPOSTEROUS, POETIC, PROFOUND AND EXTREMELY FUNNY When 1300-year-old Viking warrior poet, Thorsten the Rood, realizes the novel he has been writing is becoming reality, his efforts to escape a world of his own design include hiding himself away. But the renegade plot has its own ideas and won't let go; it twists and turns and now the long-lived Viking's life is in danger. How and when did he become a character in his own book? And who is writing it now? Is it the mysterious know-it-all search engine called Giggle? Or is it the malevolent diet doctor, Lion Rampa? Or has his friend and confidant, Professor August Dallou, become his enemy, and his downfall?
Return of The Secret Viking is the mind-bending second installment in the saga of Thorsten the Rood by internationally acclaimed author Martin Myers, and a journey not to be missed.
About the author
Martin Myers is the author of six comically philosophical novels:
The Assignment, Frigate, Izzy Manheim's Reunion, The Secret Viking, The NeverMind of Brian Hildebrand, and the
Return of the Secret Viking. He is also the author of a non-fiction work,
The Urban Loft, a sort of renovator in the wry memoir masquerading as an architectural coffee table book.
His fiction has won wide praise in the media and in literary publications in Canada, the US, and the UK. The popular press compares Myers' work to that of Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Monty Python, and the Marx Brothers while one literary critic ranks it with "Joyce, Barthelme, Nabokov and Borges for scathing inventiveness that makes readers laugh out loud and then in an afterthought of conscience, question their own ethics, morals and reality." If pressed to define his style, Myers describes it as metaphysical mystery.
His career has been a chequered one comprising such diverse vocations as broadcaster, magazine editor, actor, publisher, puppeteer, comic, TV time salesman, copywriter, restaurateur, car wash operator, realtor, broker, professor and novelist, among others. He graduated from the University of Toronto and post graduated from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. For two years, he was a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and taught as well for five years in writing workshops at the U of T and York University, where he claims to have learned more than his students.
