First British Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in black cloth boards with old gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 354pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions, stain to top edge of inside dustjacket. (44/1).

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Title: Adversary
Publisher: New English Library (NEL) Limited, London
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0450501957
ISBN 13: 9780450501951
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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This novel is a sequel to "Next" and "After Lucifer" in which the super evil de Courdeval returns to wreak his violent revenge upon mankind - this time in America. Of the four people who are lured under his spell only one escapes.

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In Rhodes's novel Next, After Lucifer , the 14th century scourge, Knight Templar and servant-of-evil Guilhem de Courdeval, escaped his centuries-long magical imprisonment to join the 1980s. Now calling himself Guy-Luc Valcourt, he is ensconced near San Francisco, with Alysse, a dead French girl, as his maid. While Melusine and Roger Devarre seek rest for Alysse's spirit and an end to Courdeval's crimes, the sorcerer lures into his power a group of venal and insecure characters, including petty embezzler Spencer Epps, rich, vengeful Charity Haverill and idealistic lawyer and divorced mother Nicole Patrick. All Nicole wants is to unlock the heart of her neighbor, Vietnam vet Jesse Treves, but the price is something she doesn't reckon with. Rhodes writes smoothly and cannily about his characters' weaknesses , but Courdeval, all rhetoric and showmanship, never convinces.
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