He had found a magic place and an ancient Celtic goddess in the living form of a beautiful young woman with fiery red hair. But his thoughts became gloomy when he thought about lay ahead. Desert, Dervishes and probable death for many in the coming war.

Captain Patrick Duffy is a man whose loyalties are divided between the family of his father, Iris Catholic soldier of fortune Michael Duffy, and his adoring, scheming maternal grandmother, Lady Enid Macintosh. Vistiting the Village of his Irish forebears on a quest to uncover the secrets of the past, Patrick is Bewitched by the mysterious Catherine Fitzgerald.

On the Rugged Queensland frontier Native Mounter Police trooper Peter Duffy is torn between his duty, the blood of his mother's people - the Nerambura tribe - and a predestined deadly duel with Gordon James, the love of his sister Sarah.

From the battlefields of the Sudan to colonial Sydney and the Queensland outback, a dreadful curse still inextricably links the lives of the Macintoshes and Duffys. In the Flight of the Eagle, the stunnning conclusion to the trilogy featuring the best selling Cry of the Curlew and Shadow os the Osprey, master storyteller Peter Watt is at the height of his powers.