I Am Mordred

Paperback. English. Hodder Children's Books. 2000. In good condition.

Mordred is the nephew and son of King Arthur, by his half-sister Morgause. Conceived in sin, Mordred is fated to kill his father and king. As a threat to the throne and his holy office, Arthur sets the newborn child adrift on the sea, hoping death will follow quickly. Yet the infant Mordred survives. Coming of age, he travels to Camelot to become a Knight of the Round Table for a king who can never recognise him as his son. But Arthur is a good king - wise, generous to his subjects and to those loyal to him - and, torn between these facets of his father's nature, Mordred finds the courage for his quest: to turn back the tides of what is to come by finding those with the power - Morgan le Fay and the lost Merlin himself - to change fate. But despite his noble intentions, Mordred succeeds only in triggering a string of betrayals that ends at Hastings, where the soul-dead son finally confronts and kills his father...