&quot;Powerful . . . A lusty, poetic and legendary world based on Ireland's mythical warrior-hero Cuchulain.&quot; The New York Times Book Review<br>In a land ruled by war and love and strange enchantments, Cuchulain -- torn between gentleness and violence, haunted by the croakings of a sinister raven -- fights for his honor and his homeland and discovers too late the trap that the gods have set for him in the fatal beauty of Deirdre and the brutal jealousy of King Conor.