NICKED

Euan Morton sounds like he's having a grand time narrating this strange and strangely endearing story set in the eleventh century. Tyun, a relic hunter, and Nicephorus, a monk who has had a (possibly) prophetic dream, set off with a motley crew on a sometimes madcap, often funny adventure to steal the bones of Saint Nicholas and bring them back to Bari. As the city's Norman administrator, Morton growls in a French accent, and his performance as a puffed-up Venetian princeling, a rival to their expedition, is a highlight. Intimate moments between Tyun and Nicephorus will have listeners rapt. In an author's note, we learn that truth is indeed stranger than fiction as Anderson reveals that many of the events he writes about really happened. J.M.D. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2024]