Tricked
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In the fourth novel in the New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles, two-thousand-year-old Druid Atticus O’Sullivan must pay his debts to a cunning trickster god, a task that includes battling undead creatures of the night, a relentless hound of Hel, and the goddess of death who commands it.
Cutting a deal with a trickster god rarely goes well for any human brave or foolish enough to try it, but Druid Atticus O’Sullivan doesn’t feel like he has a choice. He can’t train his apprentice in peace with members of the Norse pantheon out for his blood, so he asks Coyote to help him fake his death. The cost, however, might wind up being every bit as high as if he’d made no deal at all.
There are things hiding in the Arizona desert that don’t want any company, and Coyote makes sure they know Atticus has arrived. And there’s the hound of Hel, Garm, who’s terribly difficult to shake and not at all convinced that Atticus is dead.
But being tricked by a trickster is par for the course: It’s the betrayal from someone he thought was a friend that shakes Atticus to the core and places his life in jeopardy. The real trick, he discovers, might be surviving his own faked death.
