Running with the Demon

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Running with the Demon (2000, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

512 pages

English language

Published Jan. 16, 2000 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

ISBN:
9781841495446

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4 stars (1 review)

Twenty years ago, Terry Brooks turned fantasy fiction on its head with The Sword of Shannara, the first fantasy novel to make the mainstream bestseller lists, and the first in an unbroken string of thirteen bestselling books. Now, in Running with the Demon, Brooks does nothing less than revitalize fantasy fiction again, inventing the complex and powerful new mythos of the Word and the Void, good versus evil still, but played out in the theater-in-the-round of the "real world" of our present. On the hottest Fourth of July weekend in decades, two men have come to Hopewell, Illinois, site of a lengthy, bitter steel strike. One is a demon, dark servant of the Void, who will use the anger and frustration of the community to attain a terrible secret goal. The other is John Ross, a Knight of the Word, a man who, while he sleeps, lives in the hell …

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Subjects

  • Ross, john (fictitious character), fiction
  • Fiction, fantasy, general