Prosper's Demon

Description

An exorcist's methods aren't delicate but they're undeniably effective: he'll get the demon out-he just doesn't particularly care what happens to the person. His target, Prosper of Schanz is a man of science, determined to raise the world's first philosopher-king, reared according to the purest principles. Too bad he's possessed. In this pitch dark witty fantasy, Parker deftly creates a world with vivid, unbending rules, seething with demons, broken faith, and bad men. Prosper's Demon cheerfully and acidly excavates some of Western literature's deepest tropes-from Plato's Philosopher King to Marlowe and Goethe on Doctor Faustus and Mephistopheles-with infernal flair.

Having worked in journalism, numismatics and the law, K J Parker now writes for a precarious living. K J Parker also writes under the name tom Holt, and has won the World Fantasy Award twice.

As if Deadpool had slipped into the body of the Witcher Geralt. --The New York Times Rich with spiky ideas and with Parker's inimitable and always entertaining voice. --Locus