(hb; 1997: first novel in
Brooks’s Word & Void trilogy, which, according to Wikipedia, “precedes the action in [Brooks’s] Genesis of
Shannara trilogy and serves as the start of Shannara saga”)
From the inside flap
“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 the world will become if he fails to change its course on waking. Ross has been given the ability to see the future. But does he have the power to change it?
“At stake is the soul of a
fourteen-year-old girl mysteriously linked to both men. And the lives of the
people of Hopewell. And the future of the country. This Fourth of July, while friends
and families picnic in Sinnissippi Park and fireworks explode in celebration of
freedom and independence, the fate of Humanity will be decided.”
Review
Demon is an immediately immersive, deft and character-intriguing rural/real-world fantasy with horror-ish and Americana elements thrown into its heady, swift-paced and cinematic-vivid mix, a read that fans of Clive Barker, Stephen King (albeit King with better editing) and other writers of that ilk may well thrill to—worth owning, this, and a prequel to Brooks’s second Word & Void trilogy, A Knight of the Word.
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