Back in print by popular demand--"A stunning revelation of the historical Macbeth, harsh and brutal and eloquent." -- Washington Post Book World. With the same meticulous scholarship and narrative legerdemain she brought to her hugely popular Lymond Chronicles, our foremost historical novelist travels further into the past.nbsp;nbsp;In King Hereafter , Dorothy Dunnett's stage is the wild, half-pagan country of eleventh-century Scotland.nbsp;nbsp;Her hero is an ungainly young earl with a lowering brow and a taste for intrigue.nbsp;nbsp;He calls himself Thorfinn but his Christian name is Macbeth. Dunnett depicts Macbeth's transformation from an angry boy who refuses to accept his meager share of the Orkney Islands to a suavely accomplished warrior who seizes an empire with the help of a wife as shrewd and valiant as himself.nbsp;nbsp;She creates characters who are at once wholly creatures of another time yet always recognizable--and she does so with such realism and immediacy that she once more elevates historical fiction into high art.