Warring kings rule over the British Isles, but the Church rules over the kings, threatening all who oppose them with damnation. Only the dreaded Vikings of Scandinavia do not fear the priests.Shef, the bastard son of a Norse raider and a captive English lady, is torn by divided loyalties and driven by strange visions that seem to come from Odin himself. A smith and warrior, he alone dares to imagine new weapons and tactics with which to carve out a kingdom--and launch an all-out war between....The Hammer and the Cross.

    The law was on their side. But a creative military bean-counter found a cheap solution. Instead of sending the requested Reserve battalion, he sent one man and an outmoded Bolo.

    Baker Street began as an idea of doing a pastiche of sorts on the classic stories from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famed character, Sherlock Holmes. Originally, it was intended to take the stories and modify them to a new world created in an alternate London. The Victorian Age, which in our reality ended at the turn of the 20th century, continued. World War I happened but on a lesser scale, one hardly inciting the moniker of "The Great War." And World War II? Never happened. Adolf Hitler ended up dying as an old man and never engaged in his genocidal crusade across Europe.

    What if "Lawrence of Arabia" had turned his back on his native England and the Western world and instead chosen Allah and the Arab world? What would that have done to the Middle East?Originally published in the anthology Alternate Warriors, this short story was included in the collection Fiddler Fair, which was omnibused as Dragon's Teeth.

    Black-and--white illustrations.