Tricked

Atticus O'Sullivan, a Druid who has lived for more than two thousand years, has Norse thunder gods hunting him for revenge. He cannot fight them head on, so he arranges to have them believe they have cut his body to pieces in the Arizona desert. The Navajo trickster god Coyote helps him stage the deception.

Coyote plays by his own rules, though. Atticus soon learns that he has been maneuvered into a fight with skinwalkers, bloodthirsty shapeshifters that haunt the desert.

Tricked is the fourth novel in the Iron Druid Chronicles, first published in April 2012. His telepathic Irish wolfhound Oberon and his apprentice Granuaile are with him. The story draws on Navajo (Diné) folklore alongside the Norse and Celtic pantheons that run through the series.

Just as Atticus believes he has the layers of trickery figured out, a betrayal arrives from someone he did not expect. He swears that if he lives through it, nobody will fool him again. The book leaves open how long that vow can hold.