The Destruction of the Inn

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Randy Lee Eickhoff continues the Celtic Ulster Cycle; following up his highly acclaimed retelling of The Three Sorrows, with The Destruction of the Inn.

Part impacted myth, part heroic saga, and part literary tour de force;

this is the tale of a king who dares to ignore the prophecy that

foretells his fate.

Conaire Mór's reign has ushered in a period

of great happiness and good fortune, but his three foster brothers take

advantage of his position and plunder the countryside. Conaire refuses

to put them to death, however, and out of brotherly love banishes them

to Scotland. Where they fall in with merciless sea pirates who raid the

coasts of England and Ireland, brutally slaying all whom stands against

them, until finally the three brothers come back to the land of Conaire

Mór.

Filled with the adventure and tragedy, and told in the style that Randy Lee Eickhoff has made his own, The Destruction of the Inn is a story of Ireland's past, and one of her most enduring tales.

About the Author

Randy Lee Eickhoff holds several graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in Classics. He lives in El Paso, Texas where he works on novels, plays, poetry and translations in several languages. His translation of Ireland's national epic, the Ulster Cycle, is now a text used in schools in the United States and overseas. His novel And Not to Yield, based on the life of Wild Bill Hickok, was selected as the Best Novel of 2004 by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage. His nonfiction work on the Tigua Indians, Exiled, won the Southwest Book Award. He is also the author of Return to Ithaca, Then Came Christmas and The Quick and the Dead. He has been inducted into the Paso Del Norte Writers Hall of Fame, the local chapter of the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters. Eickhoff served with distinction in the early phases of the Vietnam War, and was awarded the Purple Heart, Silver Star and Bronze Star. He spends his time in El Paso, Ireland, and Italy, lecturing on Dante and The Ulster Cycle.

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Book Details

Imprint: Forge Books

ISBN: 9781429973366

Page Count: 288

On Sale:

April 1, 2011

Books By Randy Lee Eickhoff