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Synopsis
Author of The Girl With All the Gifts Mike Carey presents the first book in his hip supernatural thriller series featuring freelance exorcist Felix Castor.
Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stomping ground. It may seem like a good ghostbuster can charge what he likes and enjoy a hell of a lifestyle, but there's a risk: sooner or later he's going to take on a spirit that's too strong for him.
When Castor accepts a seemingly simple ghost-hunting case at a museum in the shadowy heart of London, what should have been a perfectly straightforward exorcism is rapidly turning into the Who Can Kill Castor First Show, with demons and ghosts all keen to claim the big prize.
But that's business as usual: Castor knows how to deal with the dead. It's the living who piss him off....
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Review
"The Devil You Know is a spectacular novel, one of the best supernatural thrillers I've read in years."--Douglas Preston, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of the Dead
"[A] deftly crafted, can't-turn-the-page-fast-enough read."--Kirkus (starred review) on Vicious Circle
"Felix offers a darkly droll take on the circumstances of his world, which is just as familiar, intricate, and morally tangled as our own."--Entertainment Weekly on Vicious Circle
"A treat . . . Castor follows up his excellent debut with this even better sequel . . . Genre-bending at its best."--Booklist (starred review) on Vicious Circle
"Every bit as good as Jim Butcher, Carey hits his stride."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Dead Men's Boots
"Witty, sardonic . . . irresistible . . . leaves the readers breathless."--Kirkus (starred review) on Dead Men's Boots
"The Felix Castor novels are splashed with color and texture, their characters are larger than life (or death), and the stories are, well . . . out of this world. Castor is a remarkably believable character... A wholly engaging blend of the detective and fantasy genres."
--Booklist on Dead Men's Boots
"Fast-paced . . . riveting . . . everything a paranormal thriller fan could want."--MonstersandCritics.com on Dead Men's Boots
"Engrossing . . . perfect . . . an ingeniously multilayered tale."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"An imaginative spin on the hard-boiled detective . . . mixes horror and humor in a way that spells good omens for future Castor novels."--Entertainment Weekly
"Carey transcends his comic roots in this quirky, dark and imaginative tale that compels reader to keep turning pages long after they should have gotten to sleep."--Kirkus (starred review)
From the Publisher
Mike Carey gives us a vision of our own world through a glass darkly, filled with people and places we have been familiar with all of our lives. He also treats us to a hugely enjoyable look at what that world would be like if ghosts, ghouls, vampires and werewolves - and all the other things that go bump in the night - were real. And he does it with a healthy dash of trademark British black humour and cynicism. We at Orbit are confident that his debut novel, The Devil You Know, is the beginning of something special.
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- ISBN 10 0748108564
- ISBN 13 9780748108565
- BindingPerfect Paperback
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