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Demonologist - Softcover

Pyper, Andrew

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9781409120797: Demonologist
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1409120791 ISBN 13: 9781409120797
Publisher: Orion, 2014

Synopsis

The desperate search for his missing daughter will take a father to hell and back...

The unsettling, unique and utterly compelling new novel from bestselling author of LOST GIRLS.

Professor David Ullman is a world authority on demonic literature. So when offered a luxury trip to Venice to consult on a 'phenomenon' he accepts, taking his daughter, Tess, with him.

But in Venice, things take a sinister, terrifying turn when a man speaks in the voice of David's dead father, repeating the last words he ever spoke to his son. Then Tess disappears before his eyes.

Yet as she falls into the waters of the Grand Canal, she pleads with her father:

'Find me...'

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Review

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, March 2013: This supernatural thriller rises above its by-the-numbers plot to deliver a mix of creepy mood and engaging musings on good and evil. It’s still a light read despite author Andrew Pyper’s literary pretensions. The movie rights have been optioned, and the staging of some of the narrative seemed based more for big-screen bang than because it made sense. The story is told by David Ullman, a renowned Miltonian scholar whose knowledge of Paradise Lost draws him into a mystery in Venice that ultimately puts him in peril. Ullman has to fight both his internal demons and possibly some very real ones to save himself, his daughter, and maybe the whole world. Original? No. But The Demonologist still provides a bit of page-turning fun with some truly scary moments that had me shivering during a late-night read. --Aaron Knopf

About the Author

Andrew Pyper is the author of eight novels, including The Only Child and The Demonologist, which won the International Thriller Writers award for Best Hardcover Novel and was selected for the Globe and Mail’s Best 100 Books of 2013 and Amazon’s 20 Best Books of 2013. Among his previous books, Lost Girls won the Arthur Ellis Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and The Killing Circle was a New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year. Three of Pyper’s novels, including The Demonologist and The Damned, are in active development for feature film. He lives in Toronto. Visit AndrewPyper.com.

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Publisher
Orion
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1409120791
ISBN 13 
9781409120797
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
256
Rating
  • 3.33 out of 5 stars
    10,475 ratings by Goodreads