This Ends Us

What if the thing that brought down civilisations once before has just been set free again? The dig was routine. A well-preserved Anglo-Saxon bog body, male, mid-forties, buried face-down at the edge of a Lancashire marsh. Forensic archaeologist James Sullivan was the one who opened the skull. He thought he was doing his job. He was doing something else entirely. What came out of Heyney Man had be...