Frank Delaney: Ireland: A Novel [2005] paperback PHOTO But when Deka bleeds gold

But when Deka bleeds gold - the colour of impurity

heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years

to the story of how the leopard got his spots

to simple pleasures on a cosy island in the Pacific Northwest

Gerry Adams

Frank Delaney: Ireland: A Novel [2005] paperback PHOTO But when Deka bleeds goldOne evening in 1951, an itinerant storyteller arrives unannounced and mysterious at a house in the Irish countryside. By the November fireside he begins to tell the story of this extraordinary land. One of his listeners, a nine year old boy, grows so entranced by the storytelling that, when the old man leaves, he devotes his life to finding him again. It is a search that uncovers both passions and mysteries, in his own life as well as the old man's,